What is the evidence that the Right "hates" Obama (in any meaningful general sense -- there are always outliers). Compared to what? Anything more unusual than the Left's feelings for Bush or Reagan? I see strong disagreement and a general assumption that his moderate presentation masks his inner socialist (e.g. the D'souza and Kurtz books), but no real personal hatred. At a personal level, I think there was a lot more dislike for Clinton, based upon his "Slick Willie" persona. In fact, I think most conservatives find Obama, at the personal level, significantly less annoying than Gore, Kerry, Pelosi, Reid.
David Shemano --- Original Message--- To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> From: raghu <[email protected]> Sent: 12/06/2010 5:43AM Subject: Re: [Pen-l] NYT oped: Obama is the GOP's bitch >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What if Obama actually sympathizes with a lot of the Republican agenda? >> > Isn't that a >> more economical explanation of his behavior? He came into office with a >> strong >> popular vote majority and a big Congressional majority, and still wanted to >> "reach out" >> to the GOP. How were they his captors then? >> > >> >> >> I'd agree with this explanation if his strategy was at least >> politically successful but so far he has been a disaster. The Right >> seems to hate him even more than the Left, yet the more they hate him >> the more desperately he wants to be be their friend. It is pathetic to >> say the least. >> -raghu. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
