For now we see through a glass, darkly

Barack Obama saw all that. So he gave the crowds what they wanted: promises of vetoes of wasteful spending, no more lobbyists, an honest Congress for once, financial sobriety, and no more red-state/blue-state, at-your-throat politics. For millions of believers, Obama was to be our version of Truman or Eisenhower — centrist competence, but spiced up with 21st-century postracial pizzazz. The people took Obama at his word, and here we are a year later with the largest drop in popularity of a first-year president in poll-taking history. ... I think it is a fair generalization to say that both the Right and the Left agree that Obama ran as a moderate in order to move America sharply to the left. The former calls it perfidy; the latter, necessary politics to achieve the desired ends.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.