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Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. >> dear president-elect obama, i am a died-in-the-wool republican. i have voted since i was 18, the last eight elections. i may not have supported you before, but as of today, i am committed to serving you as a citizen and to praying for you daily. best regards, jeri harris. >> this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that momentum truth that our of many, we are one. that while we breathe, we hope. and where we are met with cynicism and d...

Even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. >> obama stumbled. you know, he was torn as to how to address race. >> there's always going to be tension when it comes to race matters and the first african-american president. there was already underneath the surface this idea that the black president's going to look out for black people. from a political standpoint i understand that he can't give too much fuel to that fire. is it fair? no, it's not fair. but it's the political reality. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you.

Who are they trying to make comfortable? because he said something that was obviously true. that the police officer acted stupidly. that you have to bend over backwards to make certain folk feel comfortable in this country. >> i learned two very important lessons as a result of the gates issue. first of all, that anything can serve as a distraction to your agenda. for the next week that's all that the press was talking about. the second lesson is that every single word that president obama said had the potential to be a lightning rod. and particularly when it came to the issue of race. >> i th...

Covering him was that both he and michelle, they had to do whatever they could to minimize the distractions that could come from being the first african-american president, particularly in the first term. he didn't want to engage on racial issues. >> almost all of what obama did was race neutral. he was rescuing the economy, he was restructuring health care, he was implementing green energy reforms. and on and on and on. but the issue of race was infusing everything he did, even when it on the surface was race neutral. obama understood that the topic of race was his greatest vulnerability. he ...

Who is sitting down the hall in the west wing who feels as if he is not being treated with respect and consulted on big decisions. >> there have been a lot of vice presidents who weren't happy, partly because they never got the opportunity to do anything. nelson rockefeller hated his experience as vice president. i know because i was chief of staff when he was vice president, and he was unhappy completely. gerry ford was vice president, nine months. he always told me that was the worst experience of his life. he hated it. most of the time he was on an airplane, trying to build support for nixo...