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Schneider: Could Obama end the culture wars?

 

Published 1/20/2009 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Could an African-American President be the one who finally ends the cultural civil war that has been roiling American politics since the 1960s: liberal versus conservative, red versus blue, Democrat versus Republican? Both Bill Clinton and George Bush set out to end it. Clinton was "new Democrat." Bush [...] (link)

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