Posted By: Nick
Go read Gail Collins’ column today: The Audacity of Listening. For all those folks that just LOVED Barack Obama in the primary and then have just been SHOCKED! by his recent actions, this might open their eyes.
I can’t say anything he has done has surprised me one bit. As Collins points out, he’s always called for cooperation and compromise. This is a reason I didn’t support him in the primaries. I don’t want to cooperate with Republicans. I want to beat them down and crush them beneath my heel.
Some people think it’d be nice to have a liberal purist be our next president, but in the real world such a person a) won’t win (Dennis Kucinich), and b) won’t be able to govern effectively (Jimmy Carter). I’m not saying Barack should sell out on every issue, but let’s cut the guy some slack. He never said he’d be the liberal purist that some of the lefties think he is/should be; and the most important thing is winning. What good is a perfect candidate that loses?
