Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:09pm

Obama brings right approach to politics

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Published Friday, January 26, 2007
America is about an idea. Our idea is that in a free polity, people will work for themselves and their community toward the common good. Where their churches and unions cannot help them, the government will. Competing factions will boil up from time to time, but they will fight with words, and will accept communal decisions, as long as their countrymen respect their essential rights. These ideas were at risk when President Jefferson oversaw the first partisan transfer of power in 1800.
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