All Voices

In an extension of the post below, openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson talks to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Obama's campaign pledge to help heal the partisan divide that has jammed up progress in Washington D.C. for far too long:

...it appears that Barack Obama is being the person he told us...he intended to be by including all voices in this inauguration and, indeed, in his administration.

Look folks, many Americans fell for George W. Bush's 2000 campaign promise to be a "uniter, not a divider" (not me...I knew in my gut that the guy was a christian-fascist and that he was lying through his teeth). He promised to work with Republicans and Democrats to get things done. Obviously progressives balked when he started governing from the far right.

After 9/11 we ALL thought that he'd convert to a bi-partisan war time government. But even then, Mr. Bush ruled from the right. In fact, he went way far right.

We bitched and we moaned.

It would be hypocritical of us to bitch and moan that Barack Obama, a president of the left, is actually doing what Mr. Bush promised and failed to do (only in reverse).

It's time to get things done. And he needs all hands on deck.