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POST-PARTISAN PROMISE FIZZLES: ?Barack Obama campaigned last year on a pledge to end the angry part?

By Glenn Reynolds

POST-PARTISAN PROMISE FIZZLES: “Barack Obama campaigned last year on a pledge to end the angry partisanship in Washington. He wasn’t the first to promise a post-partisan presidency: Both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton offered a similar change, only to see the mutual hostility between Republicans and Democrats increase while they were in the White House. Now, just as his predecessors did, Mr. Obama is seeing that promise turn to ashes. Angry town-hall meetings, slumping presidential approval poll numbers and rising opposition to his signature health-care proposals suggest an early resumption of politics as usual.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).