April 11, 2011
Getting In His Head
NP: Frank Zappa, You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 2
Kevin Drum approaches Obama and the budget deal the same way I approach referee decisions in soccer -- saying a call was right or wrong is one thing, but it's typically more useful to try to figure out why the call was made one way or the other. So, putting aside whether you think the deal was too much, too little, too left, too right, or whatever, why did the White House agree to it?
This follows on Drum's earlier -- and much maligned -- comment about how he trusts the President with hard decisions. One way that manifests itself, in my mind, is that Barack Obama seems to "get" the long game in ways lots of modern politicians either don't, or won't admit. While I think he's gotten battered on some knee-jerk reactions driven by the real-time media (Shirley Sherrod springs to mind), he's been very, very patient on others. Or, as Andrew Sullivan likes to say, meep meep.
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