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For Obama, A Stinging Rebuke ("With humility", Obama to call for 'new era of bipartisanship')
The New York Times ^ | Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | Peter Baker

Posted on 11/02/2010 7:42:05 PM PDT by kristinn

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The most pressing question as Mr. Obama picks through the results on Wednesday morning will be what lessons he takes from the electoral reversals. Was this the natural and unavoidable backlash in a time of historic economic distress or was it a repudiation of a big-spending activist government? Was it primarily a failure of communications as the White House has suggested lately or was it a fundamental disconnect with the values and priorities of the American public?

“He will read the results carefully and hear the messages the American people are sending,” David Axelrod, the president’s senior adviser and top political guru, said in an interview. “I think he’ll do that with care and with humility. But he’s also very centered, and his impulse is to focus on what we do next and how we respond in a way that’s constructive.”

Mr. Obama will start on Wednesday with a call for the country to put the polarizing elections behind it and forge bipartisanship for a new era, aides said. He plans to hold an afternoon news conference to directly address the public frustration that led to the Republican groundswell, and will invite leaders of both parties to meet to develop a common agenda to fix the economy and tame the deficit.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; backlash; bho44; obama; sixth100days
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To: kristinn
Mr. Obama will start on Wednesday with a call for the country to put the polarizing elections behind it and forge bipartisanship for a new era, aides said.

Sounds like something McCain would say. I hate both of them.

21 posted on 11/02/2010 7:49:45 PM PDT by azishot (I can see November from my house!)
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To: kristinn

Let us be bipartisan the way the Democrats were bipartisan - i.e., not at all.


22 posted on 11/02/2010 7:50:14 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: kristinn

Bipartisanship, Mr. President? But, “We won”...


23 posted on 11/02/2010 7:50:18 PM PDT by mikrofon (America won tonight.)
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To: kristinn

Now, now. Be realistic. Barry can ride on our bus, standing outside on tht back bumper like we used to do for kicks when I was a kid.


24 posted on 11/02/2010 7:50:25 PM PDT by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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To: kristinn

Bipartisanship = voting for Obama’s agenda.


25 posted on 11/02/2010 7:50:27 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: kristinn

Yeah, like in 2009 when the GOP tried ‘bipartisanship’ and you said, ‘I won.’


26 posted on 11/02/2010 7:51:38 PM PDT by rintense
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To: South40

Why was the last two years not the new era of bipartisanship?
THAT is what they ran on. The Rats have run the show since 2006 no bipartisanship.


27 posted on 11/02/2010 7:51:39 PM PDT by omega4179 (Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius)
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To: kristinn

Nuts to that!


28 posted on 11/02/2010 7:51:56 PM PDT by tumblindice (If Sarah looked any hotter, she'd burst into flames)
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To: LouAvul

“And for Pete’s sake, send in the Marines to that national park in Arizona that’s been taken over by those pig illegals.”

Why should the young guys have all the fun? Send in the retirees.


29 posted on 11/02/2010 7:52:11 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: kristinn

Dear President Obama,

B*** us.

Nothing but love,

L


30 posted on 11/02/2010 7:52:45 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: kristinn
Bull squeeze, Zer0 will never listen to anyone but himself and *maybe* the moonbats.

Any lip service to "hearing the people" should instantly be branded a lie.

31 posted on 11/02/2010 7:53:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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32 posted on 11/02/2010 7:53:41 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: kristinn

“primarily a failure of communications as the White House has suggested “

Why, yes it was. They did not hide their progressive/socialist/marxist agenda well enough.


33 posted on 11/02/2010 7:54:08 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: kristinn

The new era of “Elections have consequences”, “We won get over it”, “Get out of the way”, and “Get to the Back” is over.


34 posted on 11/02/2010 7:56:11 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Dear Obama,

We won.

Can you hear us now?

Sincerely,

The Tea Party


35 posted on 11/02/2010 7:56:59 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: LouAvul
It's way past time for the Pubbies to be gracious. We need to be fighting in the streets and kicking them in the nads. And for Pete's sake, send in the Marines to that national park in Arizona that's been taken over by those pig illegals.

Right on all counts! The next two years should consist of passing bills that put Obamao and the RATS on record as being against us. Screw bipartisanship because their brand of it is us surrendering. And while we're at it, someone tell Juan McCain that no one asked him to play Mr. Let's Everyone Get Along and Work Together.

36 posted on 11/02/2010 7:57:31 PM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: South40

Not really. They didn’t lose that badly. They will still control our lives for years to come.


37 posted on 11/02/2010 7:57:39 PM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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To: kristinn

It is the communist Obama who has polarized this country on every level, racially, economically, and spiritually. This piece of d*ng has to go in 2012 if not sooner regardless of whether the witch is his running mate.


38 posted on 11/02/2010 7:58:30 PM PDT by doc
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To: kristinn

Obama’s idea of bipartisanship is the Republicans voting for his agenda.


39 posted on 11/02/2010 7:58:33 PM PDT by imskylark
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To: kristinn

With what? Obama has no humility.


40 posted on 11/02/2010 7:59:03 PM PDT by Irenic
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