And realize how hard it is to govern in the center (or words to that effect :-). I wonder how the lefty bloggers are going to take this:

BTW, I can’t see how the Obama administration could fault the lefty bloggers for trying to hold him to his campaign promises. BTW, add Thomas Friedman to the list of those who didn’t agree with the Nobel committees choice.(via)Update: Evidently, not everyone in the WH feels this way. And Harwood clarified his point:

In an email to the Huffington Post on Monday, Harwood clarified that the quote was not meant to convey any displeasure on the part of the administration for the gay community’s public advocacy.”My comments quoting an Obama adviser about liberal bloggers/pajamas weren’t about the LGBT community or the marchers,” he wrote. “They referred more broadly to those grumbling on the left about an array of issues in addition to gay rights, including the war in Afghanistan and health care and Guantanamo — and whether all that added up to trouble with Obama’s liberal base…”