Al Gore calls Obama administration’s collection of phone records ‘obscenely outrageous’

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77. Obama is the ultimate pragmatist

I've never seen anybody choose his battles more selectively. His ethic seems to be, "If I can't win on this, I'll be content to hide on the sidelines and maybe do something really small at the margins with the hope that somewhere down the road there will be a better chance to make real change." But then even when he does engage in a fight, such as on the gun legislation, he doesn't really fight for it. He isn't ever willing to play any hardball. How many bills has he vetoed?

This guy just does not like confrontation. That's the charitable assessment. The only other possible explanation is that he was a wolf in sheep's clothing all along.

We're stuck with 3 more years of that. Looking ahead, do we see any candidates on the horizon who would be a bit tougher -- a bit more like LBJ or FDR? The ones I have heard discussed so far would be no better than Obama, IMHO.