Political Communication blog

Obama Skates While Right Fumes is an article I saw at Politico that was interesting.

Several times a month in his young presidency, Barack Obama has done things that cause conservatives to bray, using the phrase once invoked by Bob Dole, “Where’s the outrage?!”

The outrage is definitely there, in certain precincts of Republican politics. What’s notable, however, is that it mostly has stayed there — with little or no effect on Obama.

He has been blithely crossing ideological red lines and dancing on cultural third rails — the kinds of gestures that would have scorched an earlier generation of Democrats — with seeming impunity. Obama’s foes, and even some of his allies, are a bit mystified.

Why do you think this is happening? Is it that Obama is such an exceptional communicator, the Right's communicators are doing a poor job, or could it be the generational shift that's currently in progress? Are younger Americans simply more 'Ok' with the the types of issues that has always riled up conservatives?