Daily Times:
President Barack Obama can navigate the nation back to a course where common decency and civil dialogue are not automatically excluded from politics
The looming fiscal cliff has received almost as much publicity as the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. This column has warned that the nation also faces a strategic cliff that could pose even greater jeopardy than from the fiscal woes. But there is a third and possibly more precipitous cliff.
This should be called the ‘decency cliff’. When a nation fails to live up to basic standards of decency, bad things happen.