$10 says Obama appoints no Republicans to his cabinet. This isn't about hope, he just wants to let the Democrats run the show. He won't reach across the isle; he'll stand in the way of that happening.
Good. Republicans lost. Why should they be rewarded?
Uh ... you do realize that your guy campaigned on 'working across the aisle' and tossing aside partisanship, right? Or was he being a liar?
But seriously, if he appoints any Republicans, it'll be very moderate Republicans (Obamacans) in the form of Lincoln Chafee, et cetera. He will never reach across the aisle to conservatives because Obama's 'bipartisanship' doesn't extend that far.
And because the far-right conservatives that make up the Republican party are way out of the mainstream. The American people did not vote for divided government; they very solidly voted for a Democratic President, a Democratic Congress, and a Democratic Senate.
About 46% of America voted for a Republican for the highest office in the land. Should we ignore them? This is the EXACT same rhetoric of the Republicans post-2004.
And you still didn't address my point. Why should Obama not be bipartisan when that's what he campaigned on? You know it and I know it that he did not campaign as a liberal, did not campaign as a socialist, he campaigned as a "uniter". Will he follow through on his promise, or is he going to represent more of the same?
Gore got 0.5% more than Bush, and Bush still screwed over Democrats. Your party is unreasonable, and deserves as little influence over the government as possible.
And he only very narrowly beat Kerry in 2004, but claimed a "mandate" and "political capital he intended to spend".