PUNDETTE: Maybe Obama should learn a trade
[I]f Obama were actually smart his community organizing efforts would have effected change in Chicago. But the David Brooksian “educated class” isn’t to be judged by something as pedestrian as performance. They tend not to engage in jobs, such as installing a light switch, unclogging a drain, or fixing a transmission, that can be objectively evaluated as done or not done. Perceived failures in community organizing, academics, column-writing, and governing are open to interpretation and can be explained away. Not so with a car that still doesn’t start.
