While sharing some liberal discomfort over the President’s willingness to accommodate Republican insistence on maintaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest, I’m thinking he really needs to focus on independent voters now and over the next two years. And he did that. After watching yesterday’s press conference, my respect for Obama’s focus on the middle class, the working poor, and the unemployed only grew, as did my appreciation of his vision of the battles to come. I still admire his strategic approach.