> Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>> There might be some political payoff to having wooed them so publicly
>> and assiduously (and getting them to say in public that never before
>> has any Democrat gone so far in reaching out to them) before voting
>> against them party line. Maybe this won't turn out to be an entirely
>> soft-headed strategy in the end. Maybe this unity talk has more guile
>> in it than it's been given credit for.
>
> Maybe, or maybe Obama underestimates party discipline on the other side of
> the aisle. Maybe he has mistaken for an obstreperous minority what is the
> party core, mistook their very identity for a exhausted tactic. Maybe he
> simply can not, as a matter of temperament, understand fanatics.
>
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You mean these guys?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korea-fight28-2009jan28,0,4741734.story