Reason's Jesse Walker has some sobering thoughts about Obama's post-partisan rhetoric, which Walker admits finding "empty and cloying" at times:
The true alternative to the culture war is not to declare that we are, as one book put it, "one nation, after all." It is to recognize the near-infinite number of shades beyond red and blue: the authentic, sometimes eccentric combinations of opinions that emerge from people not named Hannity or Colmes.
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