I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.