Name:   architect - Subject:   What?? Date:   9/19/2015 1:47:15 PM (updated 9/19/2015 2:00:22 PM)

Please re-read my post as it was written without trying to read between the lines.  I DID NOT SAY they would have made the same deal (although it is not outside the realm of possibility considering it was durning W's last term that Condi Rice set up the prelim talks with guides and perameters that lead to the just completed formal negotiations).  What I DID SAY was IF, hypothetically, they had made the same deal most of the people who are now blasting it would be praising it because a man with an R after his name did it...I completely stand by that statement.  Can you say with honest conviction that you would still condemn it IF W's representative had secured the deal and W and the whole crowd was backing it...search your soul and be honest! 

IMHO, this nation's most serious problem today is that our leaders, for the most part, are now more concerned in pushing their own party and its extreme agenda (right for the GOP and left for the Dems) than doing what needs to be done for the country.  My memory goes as far back to Truman, and never in that 65 years has the divide been so wide and so locked in stone.  The necessary art of compromise espoused by Eisenhower, Kennedy on up through Bush I is at best hanging by a fraying thread!