I don't think it means that right-wingers are invited to try to force their views on the rest of us. What I think it means is that GOP/indies who share Dem values but because of GOP games have been pushed into the GOP column are invited back into the fold.

It's clear that a majority of this country believes in progressive dem causes but because of divide and conquer tactics they have been voting against their interests.

Obama seems to want to end that by changing the way things are framed.

LBJ says we lost the South for a generation.

Well that generation is coming to a close and I think Obama is trying to realign the parties to better reflect the population.  

That will naturally marginalize the right-wingers who are already gasping for air as they've destroyed their own ideology in a short few years.

I don't think "he's too liberal!" is going to fly  too well anymore. People who fall for that weren't going to vote for him anyway.

The swell of voters who have been inspired to come out and cross-over will solidly put Congress back into the hands of Dems (not just marginally) and with a Dem in the White House the necessary repairs can get started if not done.

It's my impression that Obama will tell every listening audience exactly what they want to hear. In dictionary this is called, at best, an opportunist, which clearly isn't a synonym for progressive.

.....Obama is a disinegenuous phony, who at best believes in nothing and does not stand for anything or, at worst, is a liar.

if obama's "unity" schtick really is a schtick, i wish he'd stop it, it doesn't resonate with the realists among us.

congress, most especially the house, hasn't been particularly collegial since the newt gingrich takeover of 1994. before that, the nutjobs of both parties were allowed, by their respective leaders, to rant in public, appeasing their equally nutjob constituents. then, the rest got down to business, making the deals necessary to get things done.

then they all went home, told the folks how wonderful they were, and how horrible the dem/GOP opposition was. it wasn't pretty, but it seemed, for the most part, to work.

not so since the gingrich revolution, which introduced extreme, take no prisoners partisanship into the equation. and thus it has been since.

But there are "conservatives" thoroughout the country who are willing to compromise, and that's who Obama's rhetoric is directed.

There are many who identify themselves as "conservative" who want just what I want:
*clean environment
*decent public schools
*good roads
*public safety
*health care at a reasonable price

If Obama can get the support of all of us for those goals, more power to him!

And Hillary is going to get into the White House and reimplement her husband's programs, and then hand the Congress back over to the Republicans in four to eight years because the American people won't be interested in listening to excuses about how the Republican minority is blocking the Clinton plans and undermining their governance.

Clinton is not about change, she's about the status quo, and this new populist façade that she's putting on is exactly that a façade.  She knows how Washington works, and she's going to do everything in her power to keep herself in office for the next eight years, and if the American people must continue to suffer so that the Clintons and the Democrats can maintain their hold on power, however temporarily, so be.

The fact is you can't govern this country with a 51% majority, all you can do is hold onto power and wait until your time is over.  I don't think the Clintons have the slightest idea what they're going to do if and when they get in the White House, but I have little doubt that we'll get to relive a bad approximation of the early 90s, just as we relive a very bad revision of the 80s under George W. Bush.

This country needs to move forward, and Barack Obama is the only one who offers a fresh approach for doing that, everyone else is just offering us more of the same.