I didn't realize that Mitt promised never to raise taxes, just not to raise them while we are in a recession.

The crowd adored Obama, although not as much as I think he adored himself.

I feel like that mom who said repeatedly to deaf ears, "I'm telling you that boyfriend of yours is no good for you" ...and four years later, finally: "you were right Mom".
It would be easy to say smugly " I told you so," but all I feel right now is gratitude that Richard Cohen is willing to write this.

Here's a vintage quote about Obama's inhumanity by someone who knew him first-hand. This guy called Obama, "The Shark":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuH4TEmgLo

Glad to see an obvious lib come around a little, but why are they so hard-headed? He has sympathy for the poor- that's a good thing-but many are directly responsible for their condition in life. I am sure Mr. Cohen is proud of his accomplishments and takes great pleasurec in them, but why can't he apply that thought to someone in poverty? Help them find something to take like you take pride in, sir and wait! Maybe they'll find pride and pleause in their success too. What is it with the disconnect of liberals?

It is, after all, exactly what he is complaing about with Obama. Sheesh!

All that to get to the final 2 sentences:

But after watching Bobby Kennedy, I will vote for Obama with regret. I wish he was the man I once mistook him for.

"He expanded the nation’s sorry health-care system"
There's an achievement, giving everyone a sorry health care system. I can't believe the editors let that through, unless that's what they wanted all along.

FTA " Young black men fill the jails and the morgues, yet Obama says nothing. "

And yet this partisan hack will still vote for Obama. Liberalism is not just a religion, it's a cult!

The Self-Absorbed Won is unable to care for others.

#2 I hate to break this to you but your daughter eloped with the boyfriend anyway.

Just like an abused wife; abused and misused she goes back once again expecting different treatment.

So goes the life of a liberal; like the religious zealot, who will make up excuses why, despite what he sees with his own eyes, the doctrine must be preserved. Above all liberalism is not to be blamed. Everyone will be thrown under the bus before the failed ideology can be at fault.

And they wait for the next liberal savior.

The only thing worse than a girlfriend who gets beaten by her boyfriend is a one that still refuses to leave him. Richard is still that girlfriend.

I really do believe that the eyes are the windows on the soul. Richard Cohen has the eyes of a weasel. Don't be fooled by the tone of this piece. Skip to the last lines, the only truth in the whole piece.

I'm the WaPo editor today. "He's a narcissist, but I'm voting for him anyway". There, fixed that one.

Biden is just as bad,he laughed at serious stuff during his debate. These people think if they laugh and smile all the time,it's reassurance everything's under control.

I remember Bush having a grim face all the time when he was president. He was visibly shaken after 911 with the bullhorn. Obama could never fake that kind of sincerity.

What's really funny is Obama's claim that he's for the middle class in the 2nd term yet it's the middle class that'll throw him out.

Bottom line is , he's still voting for him....the stupidity of the left knows no bounds

Rihanna Cohen...

#7, liberalism isn't just a cult, it is a disease.

Cohen wrote a good analysis of missie barack, but reached a really dumb conclusion.

Richard Cohen never got over his anger over what B.0. and his Chicago thugs did to Hillary Clinton. Maybe he will actually still vote for Zippy again, but perhaps he is just a coward who doesn't want to risk what's left of his career with a Romney (or simply a not-for-0) declaration. Does he really think that, in a second term, Zippy will discover compassion?
Ramona (the Pest)

It's hard pretending to care for Americans when you're not one yourself.
And your heart is in Mecca.

FTA "... and in Mississippi among the pitifully emaciated poor…."

Something has changed. The 'poor' in Mississippi tend to be 350-400 pounds these days. Might be related to the meat, sliced bread and Pepsi diet financed by the taxpayers. Nothing breaks the heart like seeing a grossly overweight person riding a handicap shopping cart filled with steaks, donuts and Mountain Dew…and paying with one of those funny-looking charge cards.

Cohen is still a true believer -- in liberalism, not Barack. The idol may have feet of clay, but he is the only idol we have right now, so I will continue to burn incense at his altar. In order to maintain hope we will find a more worthy idol someday.

Twit.

Kennedy had huge causes. End poverty. End the war. He challenged a sitting president over Vietnam. It could have cost him his career. It did cost him his life.

I see Cohen is demonstrating his usual grasp of history. Apparently he never heard of Sirhan Sirhan or thinks he was a conservative knuckle-dragger protesting the Vietnam war. Then he cites Adam Clayton Powell and Charlie Rangel, two of the most openly corrupt politicians in our history, as validation for his theories!

The only valid point he got was writing of zer'O in the past tense.

Looks like some libs are burning out on The Won. They'll vote for him anyway.

What #23 said. Cohen is a pathetic self-hating-jew with NO self-respect for himself and doesn't "care" about Israel. Cohen whines that obama "seems" not to care? He is so poisoned by hatred of all things GOP, he doesn't even understand that obama actually DOESN'T care! A nothing-burger column from Cohen, as usual.

Cohen gets it. A liberal is one who earns his bona fides by "caring." O's greatest sin to Cohen is that he doesn't seem to "care."

Dick Cohen is liberal to the bone. He's a self-loathing Jew and will still vote for Obama right up until the time Obama loads him into a box car for a relocation interment camp.
Obama hates every American including dumb blacks who like Cohen votes for him anyway.

This tripe is a Progressive love song intended to get 'folks' to vote for the -1.

If, during a commercial flight, the pilot and co-pilot became unable to fly the aircraft, reasonable people would inquire if there might be a passenger with a pilot certificate. Richard Cohen would instead want to know if that person happened to be a liberal. So it is with one who chooses to announce that he will vote for Obama.

Newsflash, richard. He DOESN't care about anybody but himself

Neera Tanden (former obama aide) to New York magazine:
"People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him. The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone."

"It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people."

Perhaps he is incapable of caring.

The only challenge was to see if he could fool people into voting for him in 2008.
He's just not into it this year.

It's surprising that WaPo would publish this before the election rather than as a postmortem.

Trouble is, Bobby Kennedy was a phony opportunist, too.

FTA - " In an unfairly mocked campaign speech, he promised to slow the rise of the oceans and begin to heal the planet. But when he took office, climate change was abandoned — too much trouble, too much opposition. His eloquence, it turned out, was reserved for campaigning."

UNFAIRLY MOCKED? It was ripe for the picking.

Sheesh!

Right #7, and others: Nothing is more powerful than ideology.

when first you read the article you think this guy came to his senses.....the end, I almost fell out of my shoes.....he clearly needs medication!