Obama: ‘The Politics of Resentment Have Found a Home in the Republican Party’

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OBAMA: “So neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom. Neither party has been exclusively responsible for us going backwards instead of forwards, but I -- but I have to say this, because sometimes we hear a plague on both your houses. Over the past few decades, wasn’t true when Jim Edgar was the governor here in Illinois, or Jim Thompson was governor, we had a lot of good Republican friends here in Illinois, but over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party."