A Thanksgiving Message for Obama’s America
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Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- It’s a difficult Thanksgivingseason. The nation is deeply divided, facing serious threatsabroad and an uncertain economy at home. An unpopular war dragson, and the controversial incumbent president, after a bitterand divisive campaign, has just won re-election with barely 50percent of the popular vote.
Welcome to November 1812. The war against the British isgoing badly. President James Madison, after winning a landslidevictory in 1808, almost lost this time around. The citizens of aworried nation, in between the name-calling and rancor,nervously ask one another what exactly there is to be thankfulfor. Is it possible that the solutions of their fraught agecould hold lessons for ours?