From: raghu
, Doug Henwood <> wrote: > I don't get the political strategy of compromising even before you start a > fight. The Republicans *lost*, and decisively. Yet Obama courts them from > the first. George W squeaks into office and declares he's got political > capital to spend and does. The Dems make no sense in the most narrow > partisan sense. You raise a very important question. So far Obama has proved himself to have tremendous confidence and political judgment. This is not at all consistent with his apparent recent timidity. The only logical explanation is that Obama is saving up his political capital for something big. I have no idea what that might be, but right now it is too soon to tell what to expect from President Obama. -raghu ^^^^^^ CB: I don't know. Seems to me that his main presidential campaign strategy was to be sort of timid, not too uppity, not attacking, not being aggressive, not fighting, uniting not dividing, compromising (flaccid ?) - and with good judgment. How much you wanna bet his political judgment is still better than Krugman's and PEN-L ? This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
