"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country--as you value your own sacred honor--as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood." --George Washington, 1783
"If so, there is strong reason to hope that Obama comes to be seen eventually as a great president. The alternative to his reasonable, rational, relativistic way of thinking—the alternative to the pluralistic world he seeks—is an angry world driven by people who think like absolutists and haters and zealots."
John F. Harris at Politico reviews Barack Obama's A Promised Land.
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