[quote=Zeitgeist]Allan,
You missed your calling. You also might have sdg reread my posts. She has made many erroneous accusations about them. She either is a very poor reader or prefers to see what she wants to see. I think the three you mention have created a vast divide, but I usually see Rove back his arguments up with stubborn facts. The other two are nothing more than over paid operatives and has been consultants.[/quote]
Zeit: Thank you (I think). Don’t you feel we all suffer from a certain degree of confirmation bias? I can’t abide HuffPost or DailyKos and I would rather read PowerLine or RealClearPolitics instead. I don’t watch Fox News, but I also avoid CNN like the plague.
I’m sure I fall prey to some of the more questionable accusations surrounding Obama and the Dems, but I also know that much of what I see and read is real and, more importantly, verified by sources other than conservatives. I think the mass exodus of independents has exposed Obama and his beliefs and I think it’s going to get far worse from here on out.
Referring to him as an empty suit as Surveyor did, isn’t a pejorative to me, it’s an apt description. The very things that made Obama effective on the campaign trail, including coolness under pressure while Hillary was trying to carve him up, his soaring oratory and the message of “hope” and “change”, is now working against him. Now, he has to deliver on the message and the tempo and dynamic of the campaign has been replaced by having to actually govern the country and he’s being exposed as an inexperienced leftist ideologue. Again, not a put down, but an observation based on watching him operate.
I believe the Dems as a party are also experiencing the triumphalism and arrogance of a party that’s been out of power and is now back in, and they’re trying to do everything at once and attacking anyone or anything (i.e. Orszag and the CBO) that gets in their way.
And, I have the sense it’s going to get even more interesting going forward.
