"Let Obama Be Obama." Whose Strategy?

"Let Obama Be Obama."

Stop. Read it again. Soak it up. Think on it. Cogitate. More. More Still.

OK, now tell me was this written by a liberal/left or conservative/right pundit? Can't tell, can you? Me neither.

Truth is, it could have been written by either. The former would likely advance something akin to: 'Why are we seconding guessing the Lightworker just because he's run into some trouble spots? He remains the near god-like, practical, no drama, uniter, politics-as-usual hating genius that we always knew he was. Wanting him to adapt to a new political reality now based on temporary distress would risk ruining the precious gift that is Obama. Let Obama be Obama.' Here is a real example.

"His presidency hasn’t been perfect. But every day of it until now has been the fulfillment of the promise of the kind of president he always said he would be: a practical problem solver untethered to the legacy of petty fights and image-first tactics, which seemed to be hindering any resolution of our biggest challenges."

The latter kind of commentator might advance something like this: 'When you elect a man wholly unqualified - dangerously unqualified - to the highest office in the land, this is what you get. We should not be examining Obama for this state of affairs, he is an inexperienced mediocrity being mediocre and showing inexperience. For those of us wanting rid of him, the best chance we have is simply to let him continue to show the nation what a ridiculous character he is and how destructive his policies are and what a big mistake we all made. So, let Obama be Obama.' Again, here is a real example.

"That is why my own answer to the question, "What Happened to Obama?" is that nothing happened to him. He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, and it is this rather than inexperience or incompetence or weakness or stupidity that accounts for the richly deserved failure both at home and abroad of the policies stemming from that reprehensible cast of mind."

So which do you think it is? Who advocates the "Let Obama be Obama" strategy, the writer of the first captioned quote or the writer of the second?

I know, it is a stumper but if you guessed lefty/liberal you are correct. The article is here and it is written by a Yale "teacher" serving in the Obama administration and the first captioned quote is taken from it. The other captioned quote is from Norman Podhoretz from this past weekend's WSJ. And there is some previous NBfPB material thrown in there too.

So what is the point? Could be any number of things really - people see what they want to see, maybe - but I'll go with 'there are least still some people seriously drinking the Kool-Aid, Sean Smith being one.'