Obama is a politician with a reality-based world-view, that there are many nations and many cultures which have their own needs and interests which must be recognized.

He sincerely tries to follow a middle course, only to be constantly thwarted and criticized by those who hope he fails, who work to see he fails, and who do not see anything which doesn't fit their ideological agenda as valid. They want the economy to collapse, they want people to suffer, they want breadlines as the ultimate validation of their ideology.

And still Obama persists in trying to appease, yes, appease, the extremists in American society. Those radicals who have wrapped themselves in the American flag and work against finding common grounds. Some would consider that traitorous, but he party of Ollie North and Co. consider themselves above the will of the people.

There are members of the press who recognize those efforts at inclusion, of unification, as almost god-like. Probably because the man for whom the Christian sects were named was also inclusive, also worked with everyone.

The reality is that Obama is what Bush tried to convince people he was. Bush wanted the world to believe he was the unifier, talked to God, and acted on God's implied agenda. Bush wanted us to see him as God's XO as he led the country into hell.

Conservatives hate Obama for being the real thing, a unifier without pretending to have divine guidance and powers. So they accuse people of having the ideas of Obama that Bush tried to get for himself.

Arf