Frank Rich, Former NYT Columnist, Takes on ‘Elitist’ Obama From the Left
Frank Rich, the New York Times’s puzzlingly influential former op-ed columnist and over-dramatic hater of the Bush administration and the Tea Party, has landed with a splash at New York Magazine,penning the magazine’s new cover story, “ Obama’s Original Sin ,” going after the president's timidity from the left in a way he never managed at the Times. What haunts the Obama administration is what still haunts the country: the stunning lack of accountability for the greed and misdeeds that brought America to its gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression. There has been no legal, moral, or financial reckoning for the most powerful wrongdoers. Nor have there been meaningful reforms that might prevent a repeat catastrophe. Time may heal most wounds, but not these. Chronic unemployment remains a constant, painful reminder of the havoc inflicted on the bust’s innocent victims. As the ghost of Hamlet’s father might have it, America will be stalked by its foul and unresolved crimes until they “are burnt and purged away.” Rich does at least hoot from his latest leftwing perch in entertainingly vicious fashion about the “liberal,” “elitist” president:
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on July 7, 2011. Filed under