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What a great article I just read by Andrew Sullivan. It's the best one about President Obama that I have seen in a long time. A sample:
A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism willand should beeven fiercer. But this time, with this president, something different has happened. Its not that I dont understand the critiques of Barack Obama from the enraged right and the demoralized left. Its that I dont even recognize their description of Obamas first term in any way. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies arent out of bounds. Theyre simplyempiricallywrong.
The article is four pages long. I hope you will all read it.
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism willand should beeven fiercer. But this time, with this president, something different has happened. Its not that I dont understand the critiques of Barack Obama from the enraged right and the demoralized left. Its that I dont even recognize their description of Obamas first term in any way. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies arent out of bounds. Theyre simplyempiricallywrong.
The article is four pages long. I hope you will all read it.
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast