SocraticGadfly: WaPost claims Obama is Carter II

July 19, 2009

WaPost claims Obama is Carter II

Actually, it is the libertarian mag Reason with the screed, inexplicably given space by the Post. As an op-ed, this piece by Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie might be quasi-passable. As news analysis, it’s misanalysis, starting with the claim that President Barack Obama is “moralistic” like former President Jimmy Carter.

Beyond that, the “whatever” is a puff piece for libertarian-style nonsense, California version, from the online and hardcopy editors of reason.

Worse than being simplistic about Obama, in fact, from where I sit, is that it perpetuates simplistic myths about Carter.

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