Too risky to let the real Obama show

Rich Lowry writes pretty much the same thing about the Obama presidency as Jonah Goldberg, but uses different words.

The salesmanship for Obamacare represents in microcosm the larger Obama political project, which has always depended on throwing a reassuring skein of moderation on top of left-wing ideological aims.

Both Lowry and Goldberg refer to the book Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. The book details how Obama hid his true ideological agenda as he campaigned for reelection in 2012.

Halperin and Heilemann write, “He believed that over the past three years his progressive impulses had too often been trumped by the demands of pragmatism. That he had trimmed his sails in just the way his critics on the left had charged.”