BARACK Obama has 380 days left in the Oval Office, and he seems determined to keep fighting for change. But as he begins the final year of his presidency, Mr Obama’s approach has changed radically from the compromising, bipartisan, let’s-talk-it-out style that marked the dawn of his White House stint in 2009. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when he was a candidate for the Senate, Mr Obama famously said “there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America”. But on January 5th, in announcing executive actions to restrict gun access that bypass the GOP-held Congress completely, he was less ecumenical. Ninety percent of Americans supported a 2013 bill to expand background checks, he noted, and “90% of Democrats in the Senate voted for that idea”. But the modest, popular measure failed, he said, because 90% of Republicans voted against it.
“How did we get here?” Mr Obama asked, with a flash of incredulity and anger, flanked by parents...Continue reading
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