The public clearly doesn't want pessimism (defined as "anything short of smiley optimism) or a focus on only long-term strategy to the exclusion of short-term band-aids. (Band-aids are not sufficient... but they ARE necessary.)
If this wasn't true, we would have had a second Carter term...
(Hillary isn't ill-informed as much as pragmatic -- or opportunist, if you prefer; she recognizes that Obama's "common sense" isn't common at all, and it's offputting to many -- again, we would have had President Stevenson were that not so.)
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Date: 2008-05-05 11:24 pm (UTC)If this wasn't true, we would have had a second Carter term...
(Hillary isn't ill-informed as much as pragmatic -- or opportunist, if you prefer; she recognizes that Obama's "common sense" isn't common at all, and it's offputting to many -- again, we would have had President Stevenson were that not so.)