You know when Lincoln asked his biggest enemies to be in his cabinet he was probably inviting some major assholes who he thought were very wrong but he also recognized that wrong, to a degree, is a matter of experience and perspective.

Obama including a bigoted Xian is big tent for real. It's American for real. He is actually trying to undo some of the partisan damage I think; get us all at the table and re-invent ourselves as one nation.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
~ attributed to Voltaire