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If Obama is re-elected, no one to blame but ourselves

According to The Enquirer poll, most area residents are unhappy with the results of our political system, and the largest majority, 67 percent, feel politicians should compromise to get more things done. This will not happen as long as we insist on electing extremists to our highest offices.

The nation had a rare opportunity to vote for bipartisanship in the last presidential election and blew it. For one candidate had spent his entire career “crossing the aisle” and working with the other party, and another candidate was acknowledged by all to have voted a straight party line well over 95 percent of the time. So the nation rejected the bipartisan candidate and elected the party-line candidate. Is anyone really surprised at the result? Never before has an incoming president announced shortly after taking office that “we won and you lost.” Contrast that with a former president, who at the end of the nation’s most divisive conflict proclaimed “with malice towards none and charity for all.”

Now the extremist is running for reelection against an opponent who successfully led a state-controlled by the opposition party, and has a record of compromise and bipartisanship sufficient to anger many extremists in his own party. So who will we vote for? If we reelect the extremist we will have nobody to blame but ourselves for our continued dissatisfaction.

Tom Terwilliger

Amberley Village


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