Good times at the Xcel Center. (Here’s an early reaction from my colleague Whet Moser to the GOP hijinks.)
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The Sun-Times got to the point in an editorial: “Republicans insist that people should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Communities should take care of their own and not depend on big government to do the job. And the folks who do make it should give back. We agree wholeheartedly. But on what is the job of community organizer premised, if not those very principles?”
Admittedly, Obama has a lot on his plate. Here am I telling him to snort disdainfully, while from another precinct comes a demand for an entirely different demeanor. John Neffinger at the Huffington Post is making it known that “if Obama wants Americans to respect him, they must be allowed to see him react with the kind of anger – controlled, but still palpable – that they would feel if somebody did that to them.”
