The columnists at the Washington Post got pretty deranged just before the 2004 election. They were heading for "Paper of Record" status when they chucked it all away to defeat Bush.
Richard Cohen is a fine example of the muddled, brain-dead thing that passes for "analysis" by the columnists there.
In this example, he's kinda, sorta souring on Obama. He can't sell his vision.
Cohen doesn't know what Obama's vision is but he trusts Obama.

The hook is that Obama has to teach us.
He mentions that the Gates story could have been teachable and lays out this howler
I quote
 Obama stayed above the fray

Calling the guy stupid in front of a national audience is "above the fray"?
Cohen blames all the chatter on people like Glenn Beck, but doesn't acknowledge that if Obama hadn't trashed the guy on national TV nobody would have been talking about it.

I know lefties like to rewrite history, but really. That's ridiculous.

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