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President Obama's Sister Souljah week
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Dec 08, 2010 09:28am |
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| Author | Sam Youngman |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 8, 2010 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Obama’s liberal critics are furious, vocal and useful to a White House trying to solve the riddle of reelection.
White House officials who last year viewed the “professional left” as an annoying bunch of ungrateful idealists living in a fantasy world now see Washington’s angry liberal class as a key but unwilling or unknowing ally in the 2012 race.
Obama 2012 will still be about change. It will just be a different kind of change.
Instead of promising to bring both sides together, Obama is trying to showcase his ability to rise above them all.
Administration officials think the political and economic environment will be better for Obama and Democrats in 2012 than it was in 2010, but they know voters will still hate Washington.
Their answer is to spend the next two years running against everyone inside the Beltway, and that means both Democrats and Republicans.
The president’s tone when he announced the tax-cut deal was a public scolding of both parties, and the professional left got another lashing at Tuesday’s press conference.
Recalling the debate over the public health insurance option, Obama blasted them for choosing ideological purity over progressive results.
“People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victories for the American people,” Obama said angrily. “And we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious ... and how tough we are, and in the meantime the American people are still seeing themselves not able to get health insurance because of preexisting condition, or not being able to pay their bills because their unemployment insurance ran out.
“That can’t be the measure of what it means to be a Democrat.”
Got that, kids? No symbolic fights — the bread and butter of the professional left.
And it’s not just the professional left that is angry. Every Democrat in Washington who doesn’t work at the White House is mad. When, they ask, is Obama g |
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