The Great Disconnect

[carlfense]

Whenever conservatives talk to me about Barack Obama, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. But what exactly? The anger, the suspicion, the freestyle fantasizing have no perceptible object in the space-time continuum that centrist Democrats like me inhabit. What are we missing? Seen from our perspective, the country elected a moderate and cautious straight shooter committed to getting things right and giving the United States its self-­respect back after the Bush-Cheney years. Unlike the crybabies at MSNBC and Harper’s Magazine, we never bought into the campaign’s hollow “hope and change” rhetoric, so aren’t crushed that, well, life got in the way. At most we hoped for a sensible health care program to end the scandal of America’s uninsured, and were relieved that Obama proposed no other grand schemes of Nixonian scale. We liked him for his political liberalism and instinctual conservatism. And we still like him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/books/review/the-great-disconnect.html?pagewanted=all

[Ziggy]

Whenever conservatives talk to me about Barack Obama, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. But what exactly? The anger, the suspicion, the freestyle fantasizing have no perceptible object in the space-time continuum that centrist Democrats like me inhabit. What are we missing? Seen from our perspective, the country elected a moderate and cautious straight shooter committed to getting things right and giving the United States its self-­respect back after the Bush-Cheney years. Unlike the crybabies at MSNBC and Harper’s Magazine, we never bought into the campaign’s hollow “hope and change” rhetoric, so aren’t crushed that, well, life got in the way. At most we hoped for a sensible health care program to end the scandal of America’s uninsured, and were relieved that Obama proposed no other grand schemes of Nixonian scale. We liked him for his political liberalism and instinctual conservatism. And we still like him.

http://www.nytimes.c...?pagewanted=all

 

Funny that is probably a mirror image of what Repubs said about Libs when Bush was in office. Give me a break on this fluff ball crap.

[carlfense]

Funny that is probably a mirror image of what Repubs said about Libs when Bush was in office.

Ah. The other side does it too. Now there's a solid argument.

[Army Husker]

Whenever conservatives talk to me about Barack Obama, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. But what exactly? The anger, the suspicion, the freestyle fantasizing have no perceptible object in the space-time continuum that centrist Democrats like me inhabit. What are we missing? Seen from our perspective, the country elected a moderate and cautious straight shooter committed to getting things right and giving the United States its self-­respect back after the Bush-Cheney years. Unlike the crybabies at MSNBC and Harper’s Magazine, we never bought into the campaign’s hollow “hope and change” rhetoric, so aren’t crushed that, well, life got in the way. At most we hoped for a sensible health care program to end the scandal of America’s uninsured, and were relieved that Obama proposed no other grand schemes of Nixonian scale. We liked him for his political liberalism and instinctual conservatism. And we still like him.

http://www.nytimes.c...?pagewanted=all

That's laughable...NY Times never bought into "hope and change"? Also laughable is Lilla's comment of "Conservatives need a psychological specialist". Pot calling the kettle black comes to mind.

[strigori]

Just the other side of the coin people like Rush scream about all day. I would love someone to actually find a 'right' that you do not have now that you had in 2008.

[HSKR]

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought all the 47%ers Obamaphones were dropping calls. Guess not.

[walksalone]

The majority of folks who get wrapped up in politics, no matter whether their democrats or republicans, scare the sh#t out of me. I'm imagining it'd be somewhat close to the Christians talking about the Muslims during the crusades. Both sides are batsh#t crazy, convinced the other side is wrong, and out to bury each other. The self styled "politico's" of our time are just religious zealots that if you aren't with them, you're against them.