HONG KONG – Even though Barack Obama was re-elected handsomely as president of the United States, his ability to govern has been severely limited by the continuing vicious infighting with Congress over the budget.
The sound of squabbling from the schoolyard brawl of Washington’s political academy must be music to the ears of those who say that American democracy always was a fraud and now it is broken.
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