'New Yorker' piece shows post-partisan hope giving way to reality
(NEWSER) - In a lengthy New Yorker piece culled from hundreds of pages of internal White House memos, Ryan Lizza paints a detailed picture of President Obama's fall from the idealistic candidate who promised to usher in an era of post-partisanship. A week before his inauguration, Obama enjoyed an amiable dinner with a host of right-leaning journalists, pointing out common ground they shared. Some of those journalists penned hopeful, even admiring pieces about Obama in those early days. Today, they're more likely to call him a "floundering naïf" (George Will, who hosted the dinner party) or "sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous, and arrogant" (Charles Krauthammer, one of the attendees). More»
