[Fzob]

"In that kind of atmosphere, it's pretty hard to compromise," Obama said. "So we have to wind back from that kind of political culture."

Sounds like Obama needs to take the lead on this.

[Louis Foxwell]

Obama’s brain is a goedian pretzel. Lincoln made no compromise with the Emancipation Proclamation. It was simply a matter of decreeing that all slaves in southern states where the Union had no jurisdiction by virtue of southern emancipation from the Union were considered free. He did not compromise on the Union’s continued support of slavery in their own states. A compromise would assume he opposed slavery. His words betrayed that belief.