Originally Posted by ilovetv

Ummmm.....NYT does not "always" support the left, but this guest columnist's first 3.5 pages point out how Obama has not been leftist enough!!

I think the most useful portion of the column is this part, where the psychologist poses explanations for the total flop this presidency is:

"........Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted "present" (instead of "yea" or "nay") 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues......."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/op...=2&ref=opinion