Ethics Bytes:
News Service. This post appeared 8-22-2014 on God’s Politics, A Blog of Jim Wallis and Friends and is used with permission.
At the end of the day, the President mused, the biggest threat to America—the only force that can really weaken us—is us…we will never realize our full potential unless our two parties adopt the same outlook that we’re asking of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds or Israelis and Palestinians: No victor, no vanquished and work together…”societies don’t work if political factions take maximalist positions. And the more diverse the country is, the less it can afford to take maximalist positions.”
Interview with President Obama by NYT columnist, Thomas Friedman, 8/8/14
