From the "On the other hand…" file.

Richard Wolffe in the L.A. Times...

For someone who is supposedly cool and detached, President Obama has triggered outraged and outsized reactions on both sides of the political spectrum in the last year. Conservatives loathe his health-care reforms; progressives hate his tax compromises.

On the other hand, progressives loathe his health-care compromises and conservatives loathe his tax reforms.