POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Paul Krugman speaks in code too

And has become a RAAAAAAACIST! overnight, or so it seems based on his latest "Conscience of a Liberal" piece  and the usual and customary standards that any of Obama's critics are judged by.  From "He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For":

...I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

I'm completely scandalized that the little KKKommisar has given up on Napoleon Obama simply for recognizing Waterloo!  Not to worry though, he's still got a cadre of committed far left liberal mouthpieces to carry his water for him, you know, whether he actually accomplishes anything or not.  Like historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, a member of the LBJ administration, who's latest Daily Beast article attempts to carry on with the "Camelot" comparisons between Obama and JFK, and who goes as far as to say that Obama has been far more successful than Kennedy so far:

In contrast to Kennedy, Obama’s first year has been much more successful. But even more important is that he has shown some of the same temperamental qualities that should allow him to keep learning on the job as Kennedy did. And we have learned a great deal about him.

While I linked to this essay by Goodwin, it is risible at best; an unabashed effort to cheerlead for a President who has been severly damaged by his own ideological zealotry, and his inability to live up to his ersatz deification of the 2008 campaign.  But when you allow yourself to be placed on such a high pedestal, an eventual fall is to be expected.

But she is correct in a sense; indeed we do have a great deal to learn about him, and Dan pointed out some writers that are attempting to do so in one of his recent posts.  But I suspect that we will only really learn about Mr. Obama's carefully guarded past after he has left the Presidency; when the meta-narrative construct that is Barack Obama is no longer necessary.

Rocketman