By — Kwame Holman Kwame Holman Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/brooks-and-marcus-obama-stuck-between-rock-and-a-hard-place Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Brooks and Marcus: Partisans ‘Choose Their Own Reality’ on Obama’s Politics Politics Apr 9, 2010 8:20 PM EDT The old saying goes that you can’t make all the people happy all the time, but President Obama seems be drawing plenty of criticism from liberals and conservatives alike in recent months. Columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus, who is sitting in this week for Mark Shields, stopped by The Rundown to discuss how the president is handling the criticism while trying to carve out a middle-ground. Brooks said President Obama is “not a down-the-line left winger by any means,” writing this week that he’s “trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism.” Meanwhile, “every interest group you can think of on the Democratic side is ticked off at the president for one reason or another,” Marcus said, citing his administration’s stances on offshore drilling and Guantanamo. Watch our full discussion: We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Kwame Holman Kwame Holman Kwame Holman joined The NewsHour in 1983 as a producer/correspondent and became congressional correspondent in 1992. Prior to joining The NewsHour, Kwame was a reporter and producer for the CBS affiliate WTOC in Savannah, Georgia. He also served as a public relations consultant to the National Summit Conference on Black Economic Development and as a special assistant to the president of the Children's Defense Fund. During 1980, Kwame was acting press secretary to the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
The old saying goes that you can’t make all the people happy all the time, but President Obama seems be drawing plenty of criticism from liberals and conservatives alike in recent months. Columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus, who is sitting in this week for Mark Shields, stopped by The Rundown to discuss how the president is handling the criticism while trying to carve out a middle-ground. Brooks said President Obama is “not a down-the-line left winger by any means,” writing this week that he’s “trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism.” Meanwhile, “every interest group you can think of on the Democratic side is ticked off at the president for one reason or another,” Marcus said, citing his administration’s stances on offshore drilling and Guantanamo. Watch our full discussion: We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now