Charles Blow: "The Real Obama"
Is this the real Barack Obama? I hope so. I like this one.So begins Charles M. Blow in The Real Obama, his New York Times column today. He immediately follows with this paragraph:
The president used Tuesday’s State of the Union address to detail a vision of America’s future, and his second term, in which the country is not in perpetual war, government plays an expansive role, Congressional obstruction is named and shamed and he is bold and unapologetically progressive.He thinks this is how politician who no longer has to worry about re-election looks, more like himself.Perhaps.
And yet - this administration has made clear through the confirmation hearings of John Brennan that it is prepared to continue using drone strikes to make targeted kills. We might not still have massive numbers of