"As a practicing psychologist with more than 25 years of experience, I will resist the temptation to diagnose at a distance, but..."

Psyche prof diagnoses says something long about Obama.

Excerpt:

When he wants to be, the president is a brilliant and moving speaker, but his stories virtually always lack one element: the villain who caused the problem, who is always left out, described in impersonal terms, or described in passive voice, as if the cause of others’ misery has no agency and hence no culpability.

ADDED: Paul Krugman comments on the linked piece:

[W]e shouldn’t really wonder what happened to Obama — he is who he always was. If you paid attention to what he actually said during the primary and the election, he was always a very conventional centrist. Progressives who flocked to his campaign basically deluded themselves, mistaking style for substance. I got huge flack for saying that at the time, but it was true, and events have borne it out.

Of course, I wasn't deluded. That's not to say I'm happy.