"And since when did the president not understand Politics 101 that you do not cater to the 25% of your radical base?"
Hey Peach, it's funny, one of the things I have always loved the President for is his ability to try to keep politics out of his decisions... MOST OF THE TIME :0) I watched him alot in his first 2 1?2 years in office and kept thinking "He really doesn't care about politics... He makes his decision based on the fact that he truly feels it IS the right thing to do... He doesn't care about being re-elected... Sure, he'd like to be, but he's not going to pander just to get re-elected" I really believe that.
That being said, after those first 2 1/2 I think he realized that in order to do alot of what he wanted he needed to be in office for more than four years. Thus, he needed to look at compromising during his campaign for re-election. Now that he has been, I really think alot of the decisions he makes are truly from the heart that it IS the right thing to do for his fellow Americans. Maybe I'm just a naive idiot, but I believe the man is a good man. What always sticks in the front of my mind, Peach is when he spoke to the nation in front of Congress after 9/11 and in his last state of the union when he pointed out the Iraqi woman with the ink on her finger, he had to try his damnest NOT to cry. As opposed to "His Slickness", who when walking away from a funeral smiling caught a glimpse of a news camera, had to do his damnest TO cry.... I'll never forget that...
That was a moving moment, wasn't it? I'll never forget it either. Ever.