I don't know if you were being serious or ironic but it's true. Without compromise you don't get anything done in American politics. There has to be some give and take or nothing gets done at all. This is a lesson some of the young tyros in the House have not learned yet. They think a win-win situation is one where they win twice.

>I agree - Compromise is the name of the game!
>>http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/10/politics/contraception-controversy/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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>>This is what I think makes this guy such a good President. When there is firm opposition to his views he will bend. He isn't dug in like some. In this case he recognized major resistance to a policy decision and gave them an out, without abandoning those the policy was intended to benefit. I don't call that caving in, I call it dealing with reality in a badly polarized country.
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>>You don't hear so much any more from those who thought he was too inexperienced or soft to be President. He is a lot tougher than he is sometimes given credit for. He pushed the button on taking out Osama bin Laden, something his more bellicose predecessors had been trying to do for years. That was a risky operation that would have blown up in his face big time if it had failed. He said go.
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>>He stood up for the "bailout" of banks during the financial crisis in 2008, when he was the opposition candidate and had every political reason to oppose it. Because he thought it was the right thing to do. (In case anyone has forgotten, the government wound up making money on the deal).
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>>I don't think he is perfect and have disagreed with him on some things. He has made some mistakes, as all Presidents do. He's still my guy. And he will undoubtedly be reelected.
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>>Barry Blitt of the New Yorker hit pay dirt again on the cover of the issue published Super Bowl week --
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>>http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-February-6-2012-Prints_i8682641_.htm