cartoon by Chan Lowe, South Florida Sun Sentinel  Obama/Christie
bromance (November 1, 2012)  It would be pretty to think it’s
only the chattering classes who are marveling that two such
political opposites as Barack Obama and Chris Christie can find
common ground, and that two men can appreciate the humanity and
mutual need in each other long enough to get the job done that
they were elected to do. But it probably isn’t so.   If the
Obama/Christie “bromance” is such a newsworthy subplot to the
biggest disaster story of a hundred years, then we are indeed in
deep trouble as a body politic. It would be convenient to assume
that it was Barack Obama’s race that instigated the polarization
among our people that we have now endured for so long, but the
forces responsible for it have been building for decades, and
the racial issue was only the catalyst that brought it out into
the open.   Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts  I sincerely hope
that Chris Christie does not have to suffer the punishment of
conservatives fo