Obama's critics are "simply -- empirically -- wrong."

Andrew Sullivan is former editor of The New Republic and a conservative who is also "an unabashed supporter of Obama." He recently wrote the following in a cover story for Newsweek:

"It's not that I don't understand the critiques of Barack Obama from the enraged right and the demoralized left. It's that I don't even recognize their description of Obama's first term in any way. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies aren't out of bounds. They're simply -- empirically -- wrong. . . .

[He] "has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb."

Then, in response to conservative critics of his article, Sullivan wrote on his blog:

"Show me where I'm wrong and we can debate this. Or are you only synapses firing into the partisan night?"

Now that's the kind of clear thinking and articulateness we need in this jungle of obfuscation and outright lies.

Ralph