“When he wants to be, the president is a brilliant and moving speaker, but his stories virtually always lack one element: the villain who caused the problem, who is always left out, described in impersonal terms, or described in passive voice, as if the cause of others’ misery has no agency and hence no culpability.”
Psychology professor Drew Westen tries to figure out why Barack Obama seems happy to let the GOP walk all over him.
Andrew Sullivan thinks Westen is all wet.