Obama thinks Left/Right is false dichotomy

[nathan28]

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2010/03/obama-on-drilling-we-need-to-move-beyond-the-tired-debates-between-right-and-left.html

Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between right and left, between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure all and those who would claim it has no place. Because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again.

It's a false dichotomy, you know, divide and conquer.

[MacCruiskeen]

Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between right and left, between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would claim drilling is a cure all and those who would claim it has no place. Because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish while we fight the same old battles over and over again.

Draft version, before the rewrite:

Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between movers 'n' shakers and wage-slaves, between the fine people who prop me up and the insignificant tree-huggers, between those who would claim drilling is extremely profitable for drilllers and those who would claim it is extremely profitable for drilllers. Because this issue is just too important to allow my stellar career to languish while I pretend there is a "we" all over again.

Hope, by the way. Change. Martin Luther King and stuff. Winning smile, etc.

[norton ash]

Change my ass. Change my oil. Presto change-o.

[Simulist]

Obama thinks Left/Right is false dichotomy

It is, at least as "left" and "right" are understood in American parlance, where "the left" is not really the Left and "the right" is outright nuts.

And Obama is a false answer to this false dichotomy.