i actually read the article for once, since the criticism was coming from identified liberal maureen dowd.
her tone seems to encapsulate what most of us liberals feel about obama. he seems weak, ineffective, unwilling to stand up and fight back against mounting criticisms against him.
let me just remind everyone that this is a game that obama often plays.
remember the 2008 primary campaign? remember last spring when he was getting hammered by trump?
the guy always keeps some kind of trump card in his back pocket, and waits for what seems like political eternity to play it. and when he does play it, it is akin to slow rolling your opponent's full house with four of a kind.
time will tell if he is doing this to us again, or if obama is truly out of surprises.