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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Josh Marshall totally nails it.
eta: IMHO, one of Obama's biggest failings as a President has been to chart a tepid, centrist course between Republican economic policies that are completely counterproductive and moderate Democratic policies that are weak tea at best.
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Actually, I don't think this is a failing of Obama so much as one of Democrats at the state level. We've been whipped at the state level, where we've not just had the possibility of a Democratic congress redistricted out of existence, but we've also had lots and lots of austerity programs directly counteracting the good being done at the federal level in running the economy. And it is the congressional tilt to the right that puts pressure on Obama to move to the center.
Democratics being democrats at the state level is the most urgent need, and to the extent we can get a President who can help and feed that its a good thing, but it's going to take something a little broader than that.
