Apparently, Dana Milbank likes it when the president is kind of a dick. Even though he, like Mark Halperin, thinks the president was engaging in “class warfare” by going after tax breaks for private jets, he still found the president’s performance in yesterday’s press conference “refreshing.” He thought it was refreshing, in part, because the president asserted that American is “the greatest nation on Earth.” I guess it doesn’t take much to impress Mr. Milbank.
He was also impressed by the president’s dismissive attitude about questions related to Libya and gay marriage. I think that Milbank would be most impressed if Obama openly insulted and mocked the press.
As for the merits of anything the president had to say, Milbank is completely silent. All that matters is that the president wasn’t “passive.”
