Crushed Between the Left and the Right

USA Today notes the serious political trouble President Obama is now confronting. Anger at him on the left has led to disengagement; anger at him on the right has produced unity and activism

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More than anything, the President's current troubles illustrate the impossibility of succeeding as President when one has run without much of a record, and instead deliberately sought to be a "blank screen" upon which everyone's best hopes could be projected, in order to win.

Left and right may not agree on much in this country -- but they both react to a politician's "bait and switch" the same way: With anger.