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    This is Divisive?

    Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:36 PM | By Melinda Henneberger
    Rachael is so not our Elisabeth Hasselbeck! And seriously, Ellen, how are we divisive? Au contraire, I'd say we are a model of comity - the U.N. of blogs, really, only with no corruption and no Libya on the Security Council. We've been at this for a year now - come to think of it, why haven't we celebrated that? - and despite disagreeing on minor matters like abortion and war have hardly ever even gotten hot at each other. On no occasion I can recall has anyone been so much as borderline disrespectful, which has got to be some kind of miracle, if you believe in such things, which I do; see how diverse we are? (Or is that too Sarah Palin for ya? Maybe we are the Midwest of blogs!) I guess the bottom line is that I don't even believe there is an us and a them, and think Obama's right when he says that there's not this vast chasm between us at all; in fact, compared to political differences in other countries, our right and left are close enough to slow dance. For proof, just listen to the candidates last night, much of the time saying the exact same thing, even down to telling that one poor woman in the audience that she was understandably cynical. (I was thinking oh, Obama's lost her vote, until McCain came up behind him and called her the exact same thing.) Anyway, happy birthday to us, and to all of you who are off tomorrow, Tzom Kal. (OK, Emily B. just taught me that earlier today; see, we are still learning about each other...)
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