Similarity of Marriage and Politics

In his upcoming book, The Audacity of Hope: Reclaiming the American Dream, Sen. Barack Obama makes a statement about politics that could also describe many marriages in our society today:

"No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics -- the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working consensus to tackle any big problem."
Source: Barackobama.com pages 14-15 of excerpt on site

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