I hope you have/had a chance to watch Obama's news conference in London just now. He has a pretty bad head cold and was a little slower than we're used to but his quite thoughtful and detailed answers to a variety of questions from world journalists was quite remarkable.

This guy is the real deal.  He thinks deeply about virtually everything a President should think about and had to have just knocked out anybody used to the pathetic performance our former President used to deliver.

Whether you like, dislike, or absolutely hate all or any particular part of his economic, political or foreign policy program, we are very lucky to have such a thoughtful and decent human being as our political leader in these troubling times.

If the progressive blogosphere continues to berate the Obama Administration's every move to help save the economy, and to couch its criticism in the "Obama/Geithner are in bed with Wall Street" meme, the Senate will be less and less likely to pass any of his agenda.

Unfortunately, we need a strong executive to correct the dire situation we find ourselves in, and everyone who thinks Obama needs to be taken a down a peg or nudged harder to the left (I'm talking to you Krugman), will be responsible if health care, EFCA, and carbon taxes never become a reality. 

Chait's latest in the New Republic is a must read. Whether you like it or not, only Obama can slap these DINO's upside the head and force them to do the right thing.  http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=07bd4a20-60a7-44a9-ab92-115eeb62bd92