The Elevator Speech

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/opinion/obamas-elevator-speech.html


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From: barry levine
Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Subject: re: The Elevator Speech
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   In 2008, Americans elected Barack Obama on his promise to heal a
democracy that had been poisoned by political rancor. For two years he
reached tirelessly across the aisle for compromise despite Democratic
majorities in both houses of Congress. He was met by a Republican wall
of obstruction.  Strategists on the Right deemed it better that
Congress should neglect the nation's business than that president
Obama should be seen to be leading.  Four years later, we still have
no more urgent task than to heal our poisoned democracy.  Throwing out
all those obstructionist members of our House of Representatives would
be a good start.
Barry Haskell Levine