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Friday, February 05, 2010
Obama Calls For Civility In Politics
At the annual National Prayer breakfast, President Obama told attendees yesterday that politicians need to stop their partisan attacks on one another, reported the Associated Press.
He said that while the political divide is nothing new between the two parties, “there is a sense that something is different now, that something is broken, that those of us in Washington aren't serving people as well as we should,” President Obama said.
And the president makes a valid point and hopefully an important message that will not fall on deaf ears.
For too long, both Republicans and Democrats fought bitterly over just about every issue under the sun and their supporters don’t mind getting into the mud. But maybe that’s just a case of monkey see, monkey do.
If supporters see how politicians treat one another, maybe some of them think that it’s OK if they do the same thing.
However, if comments from news Web sites and newspapers and political forums found online are any indication, it seems as if the supporters enjoy the mud flinging more than the politicians. (Or are some politicians are like professional wrestlers: They fake their hatred for public entertainment but are really buddies behind closed doors?)
Whether it’s elected political leaders or their political supporters, these people act as if they belong to rival football teams than actually on the same team called Americans.
The president has echoed a call that many have cried out before, including on here.
It would be foolish to believe that all would heed the president’s declaration, but we can hope that some will not only listen, but remember what they were elected to do.
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