Over at Contentions, Noah Pollack directs us to Gary Wills:

If you want to have a good laugh, click here to read Garry Wills’s take on Obama and the Massachusetts election. What’s hurting Obama with the public, says Wills, is that he’s too nice, too bipartisan, too slow in pursuing transformative legislation, and not enough of a leftist crusader — “As if he felt restrained by his own blackness.”

Meanwhile, a reader further mines Dionne:

I nominate, from the same E. J. Dionne column, the following: ”It turns out there were core contradictions in the promises Barack Obama made to the country in 2008.”