Comparing Obama to Eisenhower and Reagan, both of whom won re-election with jobless rates above 6 percent, Andrew Sullivan makes a strange offhanded comment today:
Then there’s the golf and the fact that Obama really has restored the cultural Waspiness of the presidency.
Wait, what? That’s it—Sullivan doesn’t elucidate on the point, as if it’s totally self-evident.
I have to think about this… but I think he might be right. Bill Clinton: white man, first black president. Barack Obama: black man, restores white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant culture to the presidency.
WHAT A WEIRD WORLD.