My Complicated Relationship with Barack Obama

Rarely has a man promised so much but offered so little. Let's call it what it is—a tragedy.

I was sharing some thoughts about President Obama last week which got a lot of people riled up—not against me but against Obama. You can decide for yourself if it was deserved, or whether I was being overly harsh about a flawed man. In light of the recent controversy around David Samuels’ feature on Obama in Tablet, it seems like there’s renewed interes…