Hey, remember when it was an unhinged, unfair, right-wing smear to charge that Obama was obliviously and aloofly golfing his way through a four-year national recession?

Yeah, check out the cartoon of Tom Toles, the Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist and often no friend of conservatives, today:

But hey, no respectable liberal columnist would echo that theme. Let me flip to a different section of that paper and turn to Courtland Milloy, always good for some Republican-bashing and a hearty defense of the president . . .

“I don’t know about you, but I’m not scared of tough times,” Obama said in Detroit.
That’s a pretty dim ray, Mr. President.
Of course you’re not scared of tough times. What’s to be scared of when you’re fresh from a $50,000-a-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard? Going to an oceanside villa last month while millions are losing their homes and jobs suggests you don’t know much about these tough times. And stop trying to sound like a Baptist preacher when you say, “I don’t know about you,” least people start to take it literally.

Admit it, you’re going to click on the link to double-check that it’s really from Courtland Milloy. That sounds like something that Andy McCarthy or Michael Walsh or someone else at NRO would write.

Give credit to some of our friends on the Left. While they’ll never quite come out and admit that they completely misjudged the president in 2007 and 2008, at least now they see the same flaws that we’ve seen in Obama since the beginning.