After much meditation and re-reading of many of Brooks op-eds, it’s the only obvious conclusion. If you don’t think so, then feast your eyes – if you can stand it – on yet another, “Hey! Barack Obama is a regular kind of, you know, “Centrist!”

“If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled politician who campaigned as a centrist but is governing as a big-government liberal. He plays by ruthless, Chicago politics rules. He is arrogant toward foes, condescending toward allies and runs a partisan political machine.”

Ok, so maybe Brooks is on the bottle, or meds, been asleep in a cave, got hit on the bean. After all he does work at the Washington Post. But if you’ve watched Obama over the last year of so you can come away with no other impression. Hell Brooks, independents have, that’s why they’ve left him in droves! Darn those pesky polls!

“In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a sensible country, Obama would be able to clearly define this project without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed. But we don’t live in that country. We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect. They come away with perceptions fundamentally at odds with reality, fundamentally misunderstanding the man in the Oval Office.”

Jonah Goldberg pounces.

“Brooks is turning out to be like Big Bird to Obama’s Snuffaluffagus! He’s the only one who can see the real Obama and nobody believes him.”

How true.