Recommended: Getting Obama Right

David Brooks, as usual, has come out with a remarkably balanced view of President Obama in his March 12 New York Times piece Getting Obama Right. Brooks argues that he is neither the wild-eyed liberal that the conservatives paint him, nor the indecisive and ineffectual leader that the liberals see in him these days, but rather a somewhat left-of-center pragmatist in a town with no ideological middle ground left. An interesting perspective from a writer who, while nominally conservative, does seem to have a more realistic and balanced view of the world than most pundits.