“With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.”
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Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.