Is Obama really a Uniter

[chuck2336]

People who opt out of America's promise will not be united. That's clear. Maybe you should consider leaving the country.

Why should he leave? You stayed. Americas promise has NOTHING to do with obama, the promise is found in the people and most importantly in their God!

 

[JustChristian]

Are we rewriting the pledge of allegiance soon?

"...one nation...under Obama, indivisible..."

no thanks.

We're not rewriting the pledge of allegiance and you have every right to be bitter and not support America.

 

[JustChristian]

Why should he leave? You stayed. Americas promise has NOTHING to do with obama, the promise is found in the people and most importantly in their God!

You're right. It has nothing to do with Obama. It has everything to do with our democratic form of government.

 

[JGrubbs]

We will have to wait and see if he is a uniter, and spend lot's of time praying for him daily. If anyone can make him into a good President it would be God! It's too early to tell, and the last eight years should have shown everyone that the initial expectations are not always true. Most conservatives thought Bush was going to be the conservative saviour, and he turned out to be an embarassment to the conservative movement, so let's just wait and see with Obama.

 

[J.D.]

How will a man who supports infanticide and homosexual marraige unite us?

 

[carpro]

Far too early to answer the question. But he can never be as divisive to us ... as Bush. .

He not only can be. He will be.

Americans will eventually revolt to his socialist policies and confiscatory taxes...

with a vengence.

 

[LeBuick]

He not only can be. He will be.

Americans will eventually revolt to his socialist policies and confiscatory taxes...

with a vengence.

Now this is strange, he spoke of spreading the wealth in his campaign and was elected overwhelmingly. Why would his policies surprise us when that is what he campaigned on? Now the ones who will revolt are already revolting and he isn't in office yet. So I don't think you can blame him for the revolt, the blame would need to go to the revolter's.

 

[J.D.]

Now this is strange, he spoke of spreading the wealth in his campaign and was elected overwhelmingly. Why would his policies surprise us when that is what he campaigned on? Now the ones who will revolt are already revolting and he isn't in office yet. So I don't think you can blame him for the revolt, the blame would need to go to the revolter's.

Because 1) the 50+million that didn't vote for him aren't going to stand by and let him rule unfettered, and 2) many of the people that voted for him don't give a rip about policy - they just voted for a personality.

 

[Revmitchell]

- they just voted for a personality.

Also skin color and age. But I digress

 

[carpro]

Now this is strange, he spoke of spreading the wealth in his campaign and was elected overwhelmingly. Why would his policies surprise us when that is what he campaigned on? Now the ones who will revolt are already revolting and he isn't in office yet. So I don't think you can blame him for the revolt, the blame would need to go to the revolter's.

Dream on.

Evidently God did not gift you with a logical mind.

 

[Gold Dragon]

Has Obama been successful at being a Uniter thus far?

He definitely has a large challenge ahead in light of the harsh campaign waged on both sides of this election. I felt Obama's campaign was significantly less divisive than McCain's but still divisive.

I do appreciate the olive branches he extended in his victory speech to Republicans and 3rd party voters.

CNN Transcript: This is your victory
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It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
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