Mort is a liberal. Liberals never ever accept responsibility for their own actions. I do not believe that Mort now sees the light. He knew everything he wrote in this piece back in 2008, and he is hunting for some way to make himself appear respectable.
“I do not believe that Mort now sees the light.”
Maybe so. Maybe Mort is just embarrassed about the way the progressive (liberal) agenda has worked out under Obama. When the USSR broke up in 1991, far-leftist editorial writers moaned about what a mess the idiotic Bolsheviks had made out of Marxism. Likewise Mort is just explaining away the mess we have now as just being an artifact of Obama’s incompetence.