Thank You, Mr. President

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Joe Scarborough
Host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, former member of Congress
Posted: October 2, 2009 02:47 PM



Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.

Chicago is a beautiful city that would have made a perfect backdrop for the Olympics. The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President's mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.

For the better part of 20 years, a bitterness has infected our politics that has weakened our country.
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That creative tension--that intense give and take--has been what has kept America strong since Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton fought like hell in George Washington's White House.

Hamilton wanted a strong centralized government while Jefferson believed that the government that governed least governed best.

Both men were frustrated by the checks and balances that stood in the way of their agendas, but that debate shaped America for years to come.

Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, while Jefferson was President! Is Scarborough suggesting that Michael Steele and Joe Biden should fight to the death?

 

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Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.


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Chicago is a beautiful city that would have made a perfect backdrop for the Olympics. The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President's mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.


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For the better part of 20 years, a bitterness has infected our politics that has weakened our country.


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We Republicans spent eight years trying to delegitimize Bill Clinton.


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Democrats spent the next eight years doing the same to George W. Bush.


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Now that a Democrat is in the Oval Office again, it is the GOP who is trying to delegitimize a sitting president.


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When I try to talk to Republicans about the need to break this cycle of viciousness, some cite the chapter and verse of every hateful left wing attack against George W. Bush.


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Whenever I attempt to have a conversation with some Democrats about the need for us respect our president-- whether he be an Obama or a Bush-- I am told that Bush deserved whatever he got because he was a lying war criminal who hated the Constitution and loved torturing people.


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Fortunately, there are a growing number of Americans who believe we cannot continue going on this way.


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You and I may disagree on how the CIA handled terror suspects. But that does not mean that you are soft on terrorism anymore than it means that I hate the Constitution.


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What the hell are you doing?

 

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You and I may have a different approach to Afghanistan. But just because you want to stay there another five years doesn't mean you are an imperialist. And if I believe a decade in that forsaken land is more than enough, that doesn't mean I'm soft on al Qaeda or the Taliban.


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It just means that we view the world differently.


Read more at: Joe Scarborough: Thank You, Mr. President

 

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That creative tension--that intense give and take--has been what has kept America strong since Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton fought like hell in George Washington's White House.


Read more at: Joe Scarborough: Thank You, Mr. President

 

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Hamilton wanted a strong centralized government while Jefferson believed that the government that governed least governed best.


Read more at: Joe Scarborough: Thank You, Mr. President

 

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Both men were frustrated by the checks and balances that stood in the way of their agendas, but that debate shaped America for years to come.


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But something has gone terribly wrong.


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[DiveCon]

wow, attempting to bypass the rules by posting the whole thing one line at a time?