He’s our president too
22nd November 2008
Megan McArdle looks at the one-way left, who demand concessions for their side’s guy that they never gave (or will give) to the other side’s guy.
But beyond the tautological, what does this demand that conservatives recognize that Obama is their president mean? Are they supposed to root for him to succeed? One hopes that we are all hoping he will not run the country into the ground. But since most conservatives believe that Obama’s agenda will, in fact, run the country into the ground, it would not be reasonable to demand that they actually hope he passes it.
Are conservatives supposed to suddenly like Obama? Or at least give him the benefit of the doubt? As far as I can tell, precisely none of the liberals urging this on conservatives obeyed their dicta when George Bush was supposed to be the object of their affections.