Bridging the Enthusiasm Gap: Obama and the Conventional Wisdom

"liberal Democrats are too demanding, too unrealistic about what can actually get done in Washington"

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It's spin like this that drives me up a freakin' wall.



You don't run on transparency government, and a public option, then say, "It's congress's job to write the legislation", then undermine the congressional committees working on that legislation by cutting secret deals that eliminate any public option.



That's the story of Obama. The man is not an honest agent. It k!lls me to say that. Go back and listen to Candidate Obama's speeches, debates and interviews. His halting delivery and precision in speech is no different than Bush-speak, only it took a team of speechwriters to have oxymor0nic phrases and terms coming out of Bush's mouth (Clear Skies Initiative, No Child Left Behind, compassionate conservatism), and the lawyer in Obama can do it on his own. Slowly, haltingly, but he can manage.



Democratic voters got punk'ed but good.
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