Washington Post: How Obama can find his center, writes Mark Penn
By MARK PENN
Published January 31, 2011
Centrists of America, rejoice. After being out of whack for two years, the political system and the president have come back to the mainstream.
For all of the drum-beating from both extremes during the election season, the result has been a surprisingly sensible shift to the center – a position advocated by neither of the groups that tend to drive so much of the nation’s political conversation.
Now, having adopted a centrist outlook in his State of the Union address, President Obama needs to fill it out with big ideas that solve our major problems rather than let us keep kicking the can down the road.
