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This is the first I've heard about your newborn! Congrats! Where have I been? One thing I learned in "The Social Animal" (see my post) is we're "hardwired" to becoming liberal or conservatives. I can't change you and you can't change me. I still wonder about those in between!

The baby is adorable. I am a liberal and I think the Republican agenda is
wrong but we are all Americans and the tea party that would not bend
almost brought us to ruin. They saved nine million on the FAA and ended
up losing more millions in revenue than they saved something like 33 million before Obama and the Senate stepped in. I am disappointed that
he is not a stronger President but he did all the compromising. Still friends? I hope so.

You accused me of bias in my view of those who do not agree with me. So, yes, I find that offensive. You got angry too -- does that make you irrational? As for those who elected the tea party legislators, I think they are feeling buyer's remorse.

What we seem to have, among our politicians...and the people on this site...is a failure to communicate. I find it sad that our country has become so divided that conservatives hate liberals and liberals hate conservatives. We are all Americans, and we all have a huge vested interest in getting along and working to solve the huge problems we have right now. It is, however, going to take some give and take on both sides. Most recently, I have not seen the Republicans giving an inch on anything. It seems to Obama doing all the giving.

Is that your baby?? Cute!

Love the baby picture.

I calls it as I sees it. What news channels do you watch: Fox "news"; talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? I am not a liberal. I am a rational centrist. The operative word is rational: you have a knee-jerk reaction to everything Obama does -- where does that come from? Certainly not from objective analysis. He has faults: his major fault is not going in with both guns drawn when the Republicans publicly (on television for all to hear and see) stated that their primary mission was to make him a one-term president. Is this mantra really a goal that ANY legislator should have? Just "get the other guy" and damn the consequences for he country. And like the "turn the other cheek" mantra that so many of the faithful invoke but rarely follow, he failed in his humanitarian endeavors. I fault him for that. I want him to be angry and militant.

The frustrating thing about discussing politics with you liberals is that anyone who doesn't agree with you is labeled as willfully ignorant or uninformed.

I know you would and you would be uninformed. After the recent debacle when ultra right wing tea party members nearly brought the country to disaster, total, with world-wide impact, you still believe that it is Obama who is the problem. Woeful. And the fallout in the market is still being felt.