Ouch

Maureen Dowd is picking on Obama.

Jeez, if a liberal pres can't keep Maureen Dowd off his back, how does he expect to persuade Netanyahu or Ahmadinejad to do anything we want?

I love this bit from her article:

In “Dreams From My Father,” Obama showed passion, lyricism, empathy and an exquisite understanding of character and psychological context — all the qualities that he has stubbornly resisted showing as president. It was a book that promised a president who could see into the hearts of other people. But there’s so much you don’t learn about candidates in campaigns, even when they seem completely exposed.

Wait...so writing a good memoir doesn't mean he'll be a good President?

In seriousness, I like Obama as a President better than as a writer. I can't count how many times I fell asleep trying to read DFMF.