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I love posting the above illustration because it pisses off right-wing kooks as much as it does.  No other illustration of mine has generated more hate mail than this one.  Obama Derangement Syndrome runs deep.

New York Times interview with Barack Obama.  A good read.

And so what I feel good about is the fact that even as we were in the midst of crisis, we were still able to keep our eye on some of these bigger long-term problems and have started moving the country in the right direction.

Now, there was a price to pay for that, and that price was primarily political. If I had not had a crisis before me, we wouldn’t have started with a stimulus bill, which was easy to caricature as a big-spending liberal agenda. I certainly would not have had to shore up the banking system in a way that rightly generated a lot of frustration among people who wondered why it was that the very folks who caused the financial crisis seemed to be landing on their feet and getting help from the government.

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Something that I have learned over the last couple of years is that I have to make decisions based on the long view. And I have to suppress my own desire for a short-term fix if I’m going to be able to lead the country effectively over the long term… I will keep on making that case, and I think that to point — to quote my vice president — I believe that voters are going to stop comparing me to the Almighty and compare me to the alternative.

The problem is one of having enough people understand that very point in a time of deep recession – a time when the President faces an opposition more concerned with getting back into power than they are about the welfare of the people they were elected to serve.

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