POST: Sunday Show Wrap-Up
George Will on This Week:
[Obama] has perfect pitch, I think, for the mood of the country, which is a flinch from the rhetorical vitriol for the mood that is consuming this town. He's a little like Ronald Reagan in this regard: Reagan used to drive people crazy, in the Democratic party, because they'd say "The public doesn't agree with him on this or this or this or this, and they vote for him." They voted for him because they said we like him, he's not off putting, he's not frightening, and I think this is another 1980.
Hmmmmm.
That Will makes this point pushes Obama up a couple of notches on the plausibility scale.
I do like the 1980 analogy. Bush seems as disastrously out of touch as Carter was, and as equally consumed by current events in the Mideast.
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