Posted Feb. 8, 2010

The Monitor's Editorial Board thinks he is the best person to bring Democrats and Republicans together:

The potential exists for a more harmonious working together – most importantly on joblessness, which has ticked down slightly to 9.7 percent. But partisan winds still blow. Many members of Congress face highly competitive midterm elections, with the recent loss of the Democratic supermajority in the Senate showing both sides how much is at stake. Across the country, tea partyers stir their cups of populist outrage. And it’s so easy to fall back on the caustic rhetoric of recent years – to pelt ice balls and barricade oneself behind snow forts. One person in Washington is in a better position than others to work against these forces, and that’s President Obama. He is not up for election this year. As he has said many times, he is the president of all Americans. Change is his mantra.

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Bipartisanship