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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (293325)2/21/2009 4:31:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793958
 

No one predicted the Republican win in 94 except for Gingrich and Bob Novak, the CW said they were nuts.

A repeat could easily happen in 2010.

For now, the public is giving Obama a pass because there is a crisis and it's still early days. But if he doesn't buckle down and achieve some level of not-too-far-left competence, the public may be reminded why they usually like divided government.

Hugh Hewitt had Carol Liebau on guest hosting yesterday. She has some interesting remembrances of Obama because she was on Harvard Law Review while Obama was heading it. She said that even then he seemed more interested in being the head of Harvard Law Review than in buckling down and doing the work. She had hoped that POTUS was a job large enough to catch Obama's attention but even here he seems to want to get out of the White House and return to campaign mode. After all, Obama has spent most of his life in campaign mode.

She also mentioned that there were very few conservatives on the Law Review (she was one) and that they were usually treated with contempt by the large left-wing majority. Because of this, Obama garnered a lot of good will with the conservatives just by being polite to them. Carol Liebau thinks that this is where Obama got his idea that politeness = bipartisanship; after all, it could not have been that different in Chicago. Obama has never been in a situation where liberals and conservatives were close to 50/50 and bipartisanship meant that actual compromise deals had to be struck.
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