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In reply to the discussion: They caved! It's a testatment to how far we've fallen that [View all]joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Obama took it to 50k American people (who signed on his site) and then took it to the media and said "Enough is enough." I do expect Obama to start taking more populist tone as the elections go on. And here's the thing, and you won't like it. Obama didn't take a remotely populist tone during the 2008 elections. He was 100% consistent in that event, even as he pushed for this bill he said "it's not about dems or repubs." I had to facepalm at that. But, I can't disrespect him or mock him because that is precisely the kind of person he campaigned as.
Which is why as his new campaign is turning more populist (very subtly), I will be more pressed to criticize him in his second term if he ... isn't consistent. Meanwhile he's doing everything a centrist moderate post-partisan would do, and I never expected anything better of him. For that he earns my respect.