Cheer up chuckles, there’s only two more years to go now.
Via PocketFullOfLiberty:
President Obama raised the ire of conservatives (including yours truly, initially) when he claimed he was not an ideologue. Reuters has more:
“I’m not a particularly ideological person,” he said, saying pragmatism was necessary to advance the values that were important to him.
Is he right? At first, I thought to myself, “Is he kidding?” The more I thought about it, however, I started thinking how it would be relatively easy for him to make that case.
Don’t get me wrong. The notion that Obama is a pragmatist is insane. President Obama is a hyper-partisan and his presidency is easily the most partisan of my lifetime.
Of course, all politics comes with a degree of partisanship. It’s absurd for anybody to argue “their side” doesn’t engage in partisan politics. But for some, the benefit of engaging in partisan politics is more important than looking at he big picture.