Or, to be generous, Rovian plant. Are there any other prevailing theories about why someone could possibly question Obama?

He even laughed in Rachel Maddow's face during an interview when she complained about his scarcely ever mentioning he was a Democrat.

A uniquely perfect storm, brewing for decades, reached gale force last year. A good and partisan Democratic candidate could have quite easily smashed and quite possibly killed the Republican party. Instead we got the Duke of Bipartisanship, whose most relentless broadsides were aimed at other Democrats and who praised Reagan and slammed the Clintons. And now the Democrats are looking at possibly very hard times.

I think he's a Republican mole, and doing a damn fine job of it.

He chose to revel in rabid hate instead of reporting on the absurdly obvious. Last year, Taibbi deemed Clinton a villain deserving only of our ridicule and contempt, and since every villain needs a hero, Obama was it, reality be damned (Check out RollingStone's covers, like this one or this one).

That's why I can't take any of his "reporting" seriously. As part of the media, he's part of the reason why we're stuck with Obama now! It's simply astonishing how quickly he and other media stars can turn on a dime without self-reflection (see: Frank Rich, Bob Herbert). He chose not to see. He, like many others, wanted to believe the batshit hate that passed for "journalism" last year. I bet you that even today Taibbi and his fans from last year still cling to the fantasy of Clinton being inherently evil (No matter what she says or does, she's never to be trusted!). They'll never admit they got played by their own hate. That they chose the Trojan horse (who even told everyone he was a Trojan horse) and slurred us for backing the Democrat. No, they'll just whine over how Obama has somehow changed or that Clinton would have been no better (even though the entire basis of Obama's candidacy was him being radically better than Clinton).*

Besides, Taibbi has always come across as self-centric as if he was desperate to show you how pissed he was, as if his feelings were the story.

*To be clear (edit): It's said as if Obama and Clinton would have been relatively equal in their fuckery, when all I heard last year was how Obama was so out of Clinton's league it was like comparing Abraham Lincoln or FDR to Nixon.

... signal anything?

Is a creative-class tide turning, or is this just too little, too late?

would reign at Corrente?

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[waves!]

The more the merrier! LOL!