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• 07 Nov 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  I think David Weinberger says something really true here:
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  Learning to hear and respond to what is good and shared in an expression we find detestable is harder. The best teachers do this routinely. We can all learn to do it. We can. Yes, we can.
  
  It is a big part of how Obama brings out the better nature in us. It is a big reason the unrelenting and unreasoned negative campaign aimed at him failed.
  
  It is also a task performed historically all out of proportion by African-Americans. That is a blessing we have not deserved, but could not have survived without.
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  The African heritage of America is a rock, and with Obama in the White House, it's a rock to build on at last.

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• 06 Nov 08
  

  Martin Lindner

  We elected Obama in the face of an old politics of division driven in its extremity to caricature. ... I know Barack Obama is going to disappoint us. I know I will deeply disagree with some of his policies. But I trust his deliberative process and I trust

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• 05 Nov 08
  

  Antonio Tombolini

  "I know Barack Obama is going to disappoint us. I know I will deeply disagree with some of his policies. But I trust his deliberative process and I trust his open heart."

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