Then:
“Even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us—the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of ‘anything goes.’ Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.”
— State senator Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, July 27, 2004
Now:
“This year, the stakes are higher than ever. It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again. …’ ”
— “In the video message to his supporters, reported in WaPo, April 26, 2010
[h/t the indispensible WSJ Best of the Web]
Not surprising the “uniter” in chief is doing what he always does, and that’s a whole lot of dividing. Divide and conquer. Alinsky would be proud.
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