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Do you really believe the stuff you write in comments? You sounds like yet another intellectually lazy "moderate" to me.
President-Elect Obama had better do everything the War Party says or it might lose a precious "moderate" vote. It is amazing the way Establishment propaganda inflates and elevates the importance of being a "moderate", and that the term "moderate" represents the average view of the typical uninformed voter (as reflected by polls). "Centrism" is supposed to be the status quo as perceived by "moderate" America but the reality is quite different. The Center is really a vote for increased Government intervention and control in whatever. It is what Glenn described in his post. The Center is War, Central Banking, Bailouts (Military and Economic Intervention), Police State, unbridled support for Israel, etc. The center is the collection of problems that are destroying America that they don't/won't talk about on the news, i.e. consensus.
There is nothing wrong with conflict, especially when the conflict matters. One problem with the center is that it lets a politician/voter avoid conflict by selling out to an unsustainable status quo and calling it some bullshit synonym for teamwork. I'd rather vote for someone principled whom I disagree with than vote for some slippery snake that is going to slither its way into the "center". The principled politician (the few out there anyway) has legs and the snake doesn't, so at least you know where the former stands. The "moderate center" is nothing but a giant snake pit that all sides can slither into.
