THE ONLY CHANGE IS TO THE TOP LINE OF HIS RESUME:

Barack Obama's nonideological pragmatism will backfire (MICHAEL LERNER, 5/20/09, Politico)

President Barack Obama’s very nonideological pragmatism, which has received so much praise inside the Beltway and which has given him public support in his few months in office, will ultimately be the downfall of his presidency.

This approach and the free pass it generates from the media may indeed allow him to push through programs that here and there make significant advances toward a more generous and caring society. But it guarantees that he will not be able to gain mass support for a coherent worldview that can form the basis for an alternative to “let the marketplace decide,” which has been the guiding principle for American domestic politics, and “let our power shape the world,” which has been our primary approach to foreign policy.

The nonideological approach implicitly encourages us to believe in Obama himself — he will be our savior, our refuge, our deliverer from the bad times of the Bush administration.

Which is all he cares about, himself. He's the avatar of the Me Generation.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 20, 2009 6:24 AM