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Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond partisanship, restore civility, and move our country forward.
For many years Democratic Party operative Bob Beckel was a regular feature on television, especially on CNN.
Bob Beckel managed Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign.
What is weak politics is polarization and inflexibility.
The Right seized the story spreading the false rumors that the crime was prostitution not extortion as was later rebuffed by the Court result, but not before the Right launched a major character assassination campaign against Beckel.”
While he genuinely opposed the Iraq war he recognized that the cards gave him an opening to challenge the Democratic frontrunner for president who supported the war.
What Obama is about is seeking an era where 20th century political polarization will be replaced by a 21st century era of political realism where practical consensus among partisans replaces ideological obstructionism.
Common Ground unmasks the hypocrisy of many of the issues, organizations, and individuals who created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and makes a strategic case for why this bickering must stop.
YOU BECKEL AND DICK MORRIS AND BARACK OBAMA MAKE UP THE DEM.
Although the danger of soaring to messianic heights has the potential to become a negative in a campaign setting, it is an essential ingredient in the cable guy’s prospects of success should he be elected president.
Like any good gambler knows, when the cards change you adjust or you lose.
Barack Obama is not the radical ideologue portrayed in Jerome Corsi’s patently silly and intellectually dishonest book The Obama Nation.
For years Beckel and Thomas contributed to the climate of polarization in Washington.
Thomas and Beckel are a unique pair in today’s political climate—pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together to find common ground on some of the most divisive issues facing us, from the war in Iraq to gay marriage to the Patriot Act.
He even appeared on Hannity & Colmes, featuring conservative commentator and author Sean Hannity, who treated Beckel with respect.
Our recollection was that Beckel was exposed in the liberal media for hiring a prostitute and then getting blackmailed to keep it quiet.
Democracy can not survive without partisanship.
The old saying about people living in glass houses not throwing stones should apply here, except for the fact that Beckel’s glass house came down in pieces many months ago.
The whole fixation with post partisanship was ridiculous to begin with.
One target is House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is labeled a “little man who plays bully and thug and is no more than a punk with a big mouth.”
