>One of the things that makes me most hopeful is that Obama does seem to want to hear a wide range of opinion and is open to being convinced. He's not afraid of ideas.
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>Tamar
I agree and as I've predicted this is going to increase his popularity with conservatives (though not, of course, the loony right who do not entertain a similar openness) and have the loony left ripping him to shreds within a year.
Krauthammer and Kristol will give him a lot of room, Limbaugh and Coulter will demagogue and throw red meat to the faithful. Daily KOS, MoveOn and various "progressives" will excoriate him as a sell out and undoubtedly at some point he will be declared an Uncle Tom or in some way "inauthentic".
Just comes with being a smart guy in a tough job.
My only hope is that I want to campaign for him in 2012
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
