Drum is feeling it. Sprung not-so-much:
Could it be that Obama's moving the country left about as fast and far as it can bear? Maybe it's selection bias on my part, a comforting personal myth, but I recur repeatedly — hopefully (ad nauseam?)– to Frederick Douglass' 1876 assessment of Lincoln: Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.
The Dish 