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Continuing A Theme: The Obama Rorschach Test

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Another excellent post from Chris Bowers at Open Left on the Obama Rorschach Test:

[T]his dogwhistle Rorschach test, which progressive activists and media elites are interpreting so differently, could create problems for Obama when it comes time to govern. . . . [T]he . . . media elites that also like Obama intend to hold him accountable unless he becomes the next Joe Lieberman.

. . . Obama's message of bipartisanship means different things to different people. Media elites see it as a sign that he will regularly engage in fights that will anger the progressive activist base of the party. By contrast, many progressive activists see it as simply stating that he intends to build a large, "bipartisan" majority in Congress that will pass a progressive agenda. If, when he becomes President, Obama breaks in one direction or the other, one of these groups will probably end up pretty angry at him.

Indeed. Finally, some traction for analyzing Obamas's theory of change.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).