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Tuesday's Election (Cont'd)
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BRIAN BURKE
Arlington
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After the much-heralded victory for "values voters" four years ago, it was a delight to see in Tuesday's election a vindication of the authentic, timeless and shared American values and ideals that President-elect Obama highlighted in his victory address: liberty, opportunity, and, yes, both self-reliance and national unity.
Instead of permitting our politics to sow fear, mistrust and mutual disdain, we have collectively repudiated the politics of division. Mr. Obama's victory reaffirms my conviction that the real "values voters" in America are not the culture warriors, with their parochial definition of "values," but rather the majority of Americans who have affirmed both our collective beliefs and "the enduring power of our . . . unyielding hope" as a force for positive change.
PHILIP WALSH
Washington
