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<blockquote data-quote="TomParks2016" data-source="post: 19465" data-attributes="member: 25"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-the-hope-candidate-obama-in-his-final-days-faces-a-hopeless-electorate/2016/10/30/3282b18c-9bcf-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-the-hope-candidate-obama-in-his-final-days-faces-a-hopeless-electorate/2016/10/30/3282b18c-9bcf-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html</a>“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama said that election night in Chicago’s Grant Park.Today those words sound as if they came from a different era. Obama will close out his presidency at what is perhaps the least hopeful moment in American politics in decades, a time when the two major-party candidates have historically low approval ratings and are locked in a bitter and coarse election contest. For much of this year, Obama, like the people who pack his rallies, has puzzled over what happened.“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” he said at his State of the Union address in January.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TomParks2016, post: 19465, member: 25"] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-the-hope-candidate-obama-in-his-final-days-faces-a-hopeless-electorate/2016/10/30/3282b18c-9bcf-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html[/URL] [I]“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama said that election night in Chicago’s Grant Park.[/I] [I]Today those words sound as if they came from a different era. Obama will close out his presidency at what is perhaps the least hopeful moment in American politics in decades, a time when the two major-party candidates have historically low approval ratings and are locked in a bitter and coarse election contest. For much of this year, Obama, like the people who pack his rallies, has puzzled over what happened.[/I] [I]“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” he said at his State of the Union address in January.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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