Charles Blow, op-ed columnist at the NY Times, was one of those collegial liberal pundits to gleefully pile on in the sexist trashing of Hillary Clinton and propel the woefully inexperienced Barack Obama to the Democratic nomination in 08.
In his critique of Obama’s jobs speech the other night, Blow speaks of his fallen idol this way:
He isn’t only battling a calcifying cynicism about the inefficacy of government in general, he’s battling the rapidly hardening public perception that he himself is a product of what I call the doughnut doctrine of leadership — soft, glazy, hollow in the middle and ideally suited for getting dunked.
Read Blow’s entire column here.
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