Whit Ayres’ comments on NPR’s All Things Considered regarding President Obama’s second inaugural address:
Republicans were hoping for something akin to the president’s 2004 convention speech where he talked about there being no red America or blue America, but a United States of America. But his tone yesterday was 180 degrees away from that tone in 2004. It was graceless, confrontational, combative, in your face.
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The tone we heard yesterday from the president was that if anyone voted for me, you don’t have to give up anything and if anybody voted for Mr. Romney, we’re coming after you. That’s not a tone that is likely to engender a bipartisan compromise.
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