DO EVEN POST COLUMNISTS READ THE PAPER?:

George W. Obama (Jackson Diehl, March 8, 2009, Washington Post)

Washington has spent the past couple of weeks debating whether Barack Obama's ambitious agenda and political strategy are more comparable to those of Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. Oddly, hardly anyone is talking about the ways in which Obama is beginning to resemble the man who just vacated the White House.

They aren't?

MORE:
Obama's Bushian Foreign Policy (Robert Kagan, March 9, 2009, Washington Post)

President Obama's foreign policy team has been working hard to present its policies to the world as constituting a radical break from the Bush years. In the broadest sense, this has been absurdly easy: Obama had the world at hello.

When it comes to actual policies, however, selling the pretense of radical change has required some sleight of hand -- and a helpful press corps.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 9, 2009 7:02 AM