Thursday, February 19, 2009
REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE
We have been over this ground before.
Obama's outreach to the Republicans is mostly for the country not the Republicans.
They can take it or leave it and under present circumstances of hurt pride, they are probably going to leave it for awhile. But in the meantime, he is creating an attitude and a mood in the country, to say nothing of a perception, that he is interested in getting them involved. He appeals to a wider band of the electorate. He gets them behind him on the arduous tasks ahead.
Kevin Drum has a good summary of this today. The short version of all this is don't let the GOoPer's stuff bother you. it is annoying but, nevertheless, inevitable that they will pout and have tantrums.
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