Pete Waite looks for positives after tough weekend sweep
By Molly Reppen and Max Sternberg | Sep. 28, 2010
When I think back two years ago, I remember a UW-Madison campus completely transformed. Fall semester 2008 was election time, and even at a school known historically for its noisy political culture, those were loud days.
Nearly two years ago, Senator Barack Obama captured the hearts and minds of young people everywhere when he promised he would bring unity to a divided nation, change to a broken Washington D.C. and hope to many who saw our nation sliding in the wrong direction. Yet today, as the President speaks at Library Mall, our nation remains deeply divided: Washington continues with business as usual, a 9.5 percent unemployment rate and an economy which is sluggish at best. Many who once had so much hope are now questioning whether or not the policies of this administration have helped or hurt them.