http://donklephant.com/2008/11/10/obama-right-left-or-center/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://donklephant.com/2008/11/10/obama-right-left-or-center/comment-page-1/#comment-424314 Joshua Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:35:42 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=10842#comment-424314 I think Obama would like to govern from the middle or at least reasonably close to it, if only because he's not stupid and he has to realize that anything else would harm the nation and his re-election chances. The trouble there is that this will inevitably put him at odds with many of his fellow Dems in Congress, not to mention a big chunk of the people who voted him in. I get the feeling he'll end up making a lot more compromises with the Left than with the Right. I think Obama would like to govern from the middle or at least reasonably close to it, if only because he’s not stupid and he has to realize that anything else would harm the nation and his re-election chances. The trouble there is that this will inevitably put him at odds with many of his fellow Dems in Congress, not to mention a big chunk of the people who voted him in. I get the feeling he’ll end up making a lot more compromises with the Left than with the Right.

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