notwithstanding the foregoing
girly-type in nyc. likes bright colors and shiny things. works in off-broadway theater, and thinks about it often. also slightly obsessed with television, music, feminism, knitting, politics. and hello kitty.
Posts tagged "because it will be thought provoking"
Here is my explanation: Liberals are dissatisfied with Obama because liberals, on the whole, are incapable of feeling satisfied with a Democratic president. They can be happy with the idea of a Democratic president—indeed, dancing-in-the-streets delirious—but not with the real thing. The various theories of disconsolate liberals all suffer from a failure to compare Obama with any plausible baseline. Instead they compare Obama with an imaginary president—either an imaginary Obama or a fantasy version of a past president.
The Jonathan Chait one looks like it will be equally fascinating. Except I don’t have time to read the whole thing right now.
