Obama Lovefest

A little excerpt from The Audacity of Hope that i found particularly poignant and indicative of Obama's thinking.
"Unfortunately, too often in our national debates we don't even get to the point where we weigh... difficult choices. Instead, we either exaggerate the degree to which policies we don't like impinge on our most sacred values, or play dumb when our own preferred policies conflict with important countervailing values. Conservatives, for instance, tend to bristle when it comes to government interference in the marketplace or their right to bear arms. Yet many of these same conservatives show little to no concern when it comes to government wiretapping without a warrant or government attempts to control people's sexual practices. Conversely, it's easy to get most liberals riled up about government encroachments on freedom of the press or a woman's reproductive freedoms. But if you have a conversation with these same liberals about the potential costs of regulation to a small business owner, you will often draw a blank stare." (57)
Common sense, for sure, but common sense, well articulated is what the country needs.