
The President was fishing for laughs at a $30,000 per plate DNC fundraiser. . . via Jane Hamsher:
OBAMA: Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get — to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an historic health care bill passed — oh, well, the public option wasn’t there. If you get the financial reform bill passed — then, well, I don’t know about this particularly derivatives rule, I’m not sure that I’m satisfied with that. And gosh, we haven’t yet brought about world peace and — (laughter.) I thought that was going to happen quicker. (Laughter.) You know who you are. (Laughter.) We have had the most productive, progressive legislative session in at least a generation.
UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald has a list (a long list) of liberal criticisms of Obama and, big surprise, none involve unreasonable expectations. UPDATE #2: Another list.
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