Rewarding the 'Values' Crowd (WashingtonPost.com) By William Raspberry
Monday, November 8, 2004; Page A25

Today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation.
-- President Bush,
in his victory speech

We are required now to work together for the good of our country. In the days ahead, we must find common cause, we must join in common effort, without remorse or recrimination, without anger or rancor. America is in need of unity and longing for a larger measure of compassion.
-- Sen. John F. Kerry,
in his concession speech

Are they, the reelected president and his defeated opponent, merely doing their compulsories? Or do they really think they can help Americans pull together across the lines that made this such a brutally divisive election?

I think they mean it. I doubt they can do it.

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