Yes, that’s right — TIME columnist Fareed Zakaria believes President Obama has disappointed his liberal base because of his essential centrist pragmatism.
If that assessment is not enough to elicit a chuckle, check out Zakaria’s amusing tweak of a liberal pundit who’s unable to grasp Obama’s centrist approach.
On Aug. 9, the MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan raged on TV that Obama should just give such a [stirring] speech, overriding Congress and taking charge. But the most revealing moment came minutes after Ratigan’s rant, when his panel of experts pressed him as to what specifically he would want Obama to do once he had usurped power. Ratigan’s answer: allow corporations to repatriate their overseas profits (presumably by reducing or waiving corporate taxes on the money) to fund a national infrastructure bank. So the great liberal dream is that Obama propose something that he has already proposed and fund it by giving multinationals a tax break.
