Paying for Positivity

Barrack Obama has tried very hard to mold himself as the "good guy" among his political competitors.

Good, meaning non-mudslinging. According to a Reuters article, Barrack's campaign has been devoted to painstakingly carving out his persona as the peacemaker, just the sort of positive candidate that could bridge the widening partisan gap.

Too bad Hillary's still winning in the polls.

Now Obama is helplessly pinned by his own public image. He must choose between betraying that image and possibly alienating his hard-earned supporters. So far, society seems set on destroying the image. Observe:
-"If he's playing to win, they are going to have to ratchet it up," says Simon Rosenberg, head of the Democratic advocacy group NDN.
-"Voters here like a scrappy underdog, and he never fit that role" says Dante Scala, a political analyst at the University of New Hampshire

Ratchet up? Scrappy? What? The political world has always nurtured the "survival of the fittest" mentality but seriously? At a time when our country is so divided a bill has more of a chance to get hit by lightning than to get passed, how can we castigate a candidate who's trying to make amends? (Or at least pretends to.)