mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | news, blogs, obama, politics, cnn, david gergen
Good point
Quoted: From my perspective, watching alone from a hotel in Florida, I found it refreshing to have a political candidate who finally talks to us as mature adults and also appeals to what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.”
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We have become so accustomed to political “leaders” who treat us like children, spoon feeding us with platitudes and playing upon our prejudices, that we forget what it is like to have a serious conversation about our challenges as a people.
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