Even now, Obama is still on the fence (Atlantic)

Clive Crook - Clive Crook is an editor of the Atlantic, columnist for National Journal and a commentator for the Financial Times. He worked for The Economist 20 years including 11 as Deputy Editor in Chief. Clive Crook is an editor of the Atlantic, columnist for National Journal and a commentator for the Financial Times. For 20 years, he worked for The Economist as Washington correspondent, editor of the economy and for 11 years, associate editor. He writes about the intersection of politics and the economy. December 2010 14, 6: 23 PM and for reasons that I have discussed before, I welcome the agreement of the tax, which the Senate seems ready to back and the House probably comes, however reluctantly. Key issue: is the White House now engaged in a strategy of Clintonian triangulation, or is this off Pact? We discuss this in a new column for the FT. The answer, I think, is that Obama itself is not yet known.

Barack Obama continued to hesitate a decision that there may be no retreat that could seal the fate of his presidency. It resists Congressional Democrats, find the esteem of the country average and get reelected in 2012? Or he fight for progressive principles also dispose of independent voters who switched to the Republican party in mid-term elections and do so with a single term?

You might think the compromise that it struck just with Republicans to extend current us - rather than their livestock for households with higher income tax rates as it was previously - moved to the question. It should have, but he did not.

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