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On Oct 14, 2010, at 17:30, [email protected] wrote: > But instead of adopting a pragmatic approach, > some now, the rest later, he chose to go for a grand package. When I lived in Sacramento, someone explained to me there were two different definition of the word pragmatic. Voters use it to mean overcoming political differences to find common ground that will actually help people. Politicians use it to mean crafting legislation in a way that every affected interest group gets something in return. This is a real disconnect, and one reason politicians think voters are fickle. To reform politics, we may literally need a new language. Obama probably sincerely thought he was pragmatic as well as centrist. Worse, so did everyone he knew. :-( -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
