"We also hoped for a chance to get beyond some of the old political divides - between Democrats and Republicans, Red states and Blue states - that had prevented us from making progress. Because although we are proud to be Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans - and we believed that no single party has a monopoly on wisdom." President Obama today
Notice the past tense. "We hoped." "We believed." This paragraph was more than just a refrain of his 2004 keynote address, it was strong indictment of the Republican strategy of advancing party over country.