Back in the Saddle(back) Again, cont.

A reader writes:

[I]n the context of a national and international stage, I find that after viewing [the Warren selection] from every point of the compass, I'm left with [Obama's] simple message of believ[ing] in Unity, and the power and truth of his message and actions. And it is unassailable: [We are] "The UNITED States of America."

For a body of people as diversified as we are to come together in times like these requires real compromise. Those who cling to their causes call it "sacrifice." That's unfortunate, since there are a lot of us here in the USA whose views countermand those of most of the rest of us. If We The People are ever gonna make it work, we have GOT to unify. Not talk the talk. We need to do it. Having someone as unlikely as Warren speak is a good example of what it looks like, in my view.

Right now, there is a huge swath of semi-lost, wandering-in-the-woods American conservatives, semi-and-otherwise, who may be a leeetle-bit behind the curve of political understanding, but who are nonetheless brother and sister Americans, and who are freaked. This is an olive branch, and personally, I think it's a brilliant move, engineered in a way that will garner all the highest exposure, while costing none of the higher expenses of other ways we might hope to bring the "other side of the aisle" to the table, i.e., legislative compromise.

Hey, what part of "UNITED" didn't you get?