Obama hasn’t changed, but where’s the country that elected him?
He hasn't changed. But the country that elected him has. We seem to have lost our collective nerve....
“Change you can believe in” on education, health, energy, climate change, Iraq, immigration, Wall Street, and Guantanamo Bay. Barack Obama ran for president on all of that, he won on it, and now he’s trying to get it done.
He hasn’t changed. But the country that elected him has. We seem to have lost our collective nerve.
We’ve lost our confidence in ourselves, our government, and our institutions. We’ve lost our taste for boldness, our eagerness to experiment, our openness to the future. Enough of us are in hunker-down or angry-protest mode that Obama faces a struggle for every approval point in public opinion polls and on nearly every issue before Congress.
There is no question that this is the same person the nation elected with 53 percent of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes. His return to Cooper Union this week would have been a powerful reminder of that even if he hadn’t reminded us himself in his speech.
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