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I am sorely tempted to argue that anyone who can inspire such fear and loathing from both the extreme right and left has got to be doing something right.
Ah yes, the traditional cop out of the media. Looking to take over for Howard Kurtz or sumthin' like that?
Sorry Mr. Leonard, but no. I am flabbergasted first off by your apparent belief that there is some sort of extreme left with a voice in our political discourse. There isn't and if you don't know that, you really may have been too long at this station. Time for some fresh air.
The uproar over what is happening to the autoworkers is based in the complete and utter disparity of the treatment being doled out by Obama as opposed to the obscene sums thrown at the investment banks and banking conglomerates. The automakers may or may not be viable in the long term, but then again, their odds of being viable are at least as good as those facing AIG, Citigroup and (if not for all the taxpayer money laundered through multiple channels), Government Sachs.
Opposition from both ends of the spectrum is, in my opinion, far more likely to be indicative that something is way wrong with the Obama plan and not, as you seem to feel, some contra-indicator proving its rightness.
Geez!
