Re: [RC] [ RC ] 2010 Election: Time magazine analysis by Mark Halperin -with comments

[David R. Block]

Then the disconnect between perceptions and reality is extremely great. David To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.--Thomas Jefferson   On 10/14/2010 11:51 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Oct 14, 2010, at 17:30, bil...@aol.com 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 <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org