A Tale of Two Obamas

by Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the American Prospect
Huffington Post
Dec. 6, 2009

It was the best of Obama, it was the worst of Obama.

I was pleasantly surprised to be invited to the White House jobs summit last Thursday, where I got to watch President Obama engage with about 130 people off the cuff. And I was reminded, first hand, what drew so many of us to the promise of this remarkable outsider -- the decency, the intellect, the idealism, and the evidently progressive impulses. I came away even more bewildered and dismayed at the reality that this president, who could have been such an insurgent at a moment demanding insurgency, has been so utterly captured by the Wall Street elite, the health insurance industry elite, and the military elite.

Click here to read the words of a brilliant President speaking extemporaneously who convincingly shows that he grasps and understands the policy details.