Oct 15 2009
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“ From day one of his administration, the left has held Barack Obama’s feet to the fire way more than the right ever did to George W, Bush — at least until Bush’s nomination of Harriet Meirs to the Supreme Court. Put another way: the diversity of opinion about Obama and his presidency among activist Dems far exceeds early Bush-era diversity of opinion among activist GOPers.
— This is a great, but often unspoken, point made by Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic here.