The child of a communist and a communist.
He has put together a team which has impressed almost everyone with its calibre and its centrism. BARF
He has been tough already, dispatching blunderers and being prepared to admit to mistakes. BARF
He has repeatedly warned Americans that he will have to do unpleasant things. Well, he got one right at least. But I wish that they were confined to such things as the picking of his nose on television.
I don’t know when, but at some point in the past The Economist turned into mouthpiece for leftist economics. They hated Bush and now, of course, love Obama. Nothing they write can be taken seriously.