[lbo-talk] another Teflon pres?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 22 06:58:39 PDT 2009


[from The Note]

Will anything get to him? “The outrage is definitely there, in certain precincts of Republican politics. What’s notable, however, is that it mostly has stayed there — with little or no effect on Obama,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports. “He has been blithely crossing ideological red lines and dancing on cultural third rails -- the kinds of gestures that would have scorched an earlier generation of Democrats -- with seeming impunity. Obama’s foes, and even some of his allies, are a bit mystified.”

Will there even be a social-issue backlash? Gay marriage is on the march, but there’s not much of a parade in the other direction. “Beyond the expected condemnation from conservative leaders, the stunning series of events is notable for how little it's reverberated across the national political landscape,” per ABC News. “It's almost like the silence is deafening,” said Tony Fabrizio, a GOP pollster.



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