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20 May, 2013
The Obama Synthesis, Vindicated? - NYTimes.com
The Obama Synthesis, Vindicated? - NYTimes.com: But these critiques and counterfactuals notwithstanding, Obama is currently presiding over an improving fiscal and economic picture, and the disasters that conservatives, in particular, descried on the horizon — default, hyper-inflation, Greece — seem increasingly remote. It’s not the best possible news, but it’s much better than some of the alternatives. And given what I’d probably be writing if the news were worse, it’s important to give this White House some credit that it isn’t.