Watching MSNBC today and heard that "they" are dismayed with candidate Obama because he's slewing hard toward the middle. Bob Herbert, in the NY Times, made some thinly veiled snide comment about Obama lurching toward the middle and enraging his constituency.
Is it just me or is the middle where most Americans are; where most voters are? And if we're all pretty much in the middle and Obama's "lurching" toward us, isn't that a good thing?
I've never been partisan. I'm a pretty practical, non-ideological guy. I like things that work the way they're supposed to and I like to get things done. These two notions would put me seemingly on the outside of the mainstream of American politics. That's too bad because I'm also a pretty political guy. And I believe that there are more of me than there of them. And I don't have a problem with anyone who wants go make things better generally and wants to get things done, and wants to give people hope (in lieu of scaring them to death) lurches generally in my direction.
On the other hand, if there are so many of us in the middle why does the mainstream media feel the need to skew one direction or the other?
It's entirely possible that I'm really full of crap.
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