re: #175 HappyWarrior

And if 99%, liberals would be accused of accepting everything Obama does blindly. Can’t fucking win with stupid shit like this. 90% approval for anything is good.

And why did it “sour”? Because he wasn’t sufficiently liberal enough. He was too quick to cave to GOP demands, and otherwise sought to govern from the center at a time when the GOP is pushing everything to the hard right.

The President has to govern by catering to more than just the left. He’s got to govern the nation, which means that there’s a wide range of political opinions. By attempting to govern from the middle, he risks losing the left, but they’re not going anywhere else. They can only look to move Obama’s policy positions towards their preferences.