I just have one disagreement with Drew Weston's otherwise great piece on Obama in last Sunday's NYT. And that's the title, "What Happened to Obama?"
I don't think anything happened to Barack Obama. He is the man he always was. In the swooning days of 2007 and 2008, some of us on the left distrusted the cult-like status of the man and his campaign. His admirers (and detractors) weren't seeing him clearly. Many people projected their desires and fears onto him.
With time, we can now see more clearly who he is.
And who is that? Not a fighter. Not a leftist. Not a reformer. A conciliator, pragmatist, centrist and technocrat. Definitely not what these times call for.
I don't think anything happened to Barack Obama. He is the man he always was. In the swooning days of 2007 and 2008, some of us on the left distrusted the cult-like status of the man and his campaign. His admirers (and detractors) weren't seeing him clearly. Many people projected their desires and fears onto him.
With time, we can now see more clearly who he is.
And who is that? Not a fighter. Not a leftist. Not a reformer. A conciliator, pragmatist, centrist and technocrat. Definitely not what these times call for.
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