So the people who made their choice (and the politicians that represent them to an extent) are either having second thoughts, or were duped into making that choice.
There's a pretty glaring omission in the possibilities you have enumerated there, isn't there? I'll fix it for you.
So the people who made their choice (and the politicians that represent them to an extent) are either having second thoughts, or were duped into making that choice, or are being duped now.
The problem is that President Obama faces a loud and well-organized and loud (and also loud) segment of opposition that seeks to cast him as a power-mad despot. You may recall that when he was first elected, he had a different attitude: "I won. I'll check you on that because I won." then he has shown these past few months, at least up until his speech before the joint session.
His problem was... and again, I say that this is a classic liberal mistake... that he cared too much about the rhetoric of the other side. Despotism is so anathema to liberalism that even the appearance of it disquiets and upsets us. He backed off. He let the other side shape the public debate. This may very well prove to be the biggest mistake of his presidency. Time will tell if it's an insurmountable one.
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There's a pretty glaring omission in the possibilities you have enumerated there, isn't there? I'll fix it for you.
So the people who made their choice (and the politicians that represent them to an extent) are either having second thoughts, or were duped into making that choice, or are being duped now.
The problem is that President Obama faces a loud and well-organized and loud (and also loud) segment of opposition that seeks to cast him as a power-mad despot. You may recall that when he was first elected, he had a different attitude: "I won. I'll check you on that because I won." then he has shown these past few months, at least up until his speech before the joint session.
His problem was... and again, I say that this is a classic liberal mistake... that he cared too much about the rhetoric of the other side. Despotism is so anathema to liberalism that even the appearance of it disquiets and upsets us. He backed off. He let the other side shape the public debate. This may very well prove to be the biggest mistake of his presidency. Time will tell if it's an insurmountable one.