'A Well-Executed Con Job'

At Commentary, Peter Wehner rounds up several quotes highlighting the remarkably nuanced and enlightened tone of the Ruling Class left over the past two years, and concludes:

You might think that the man who promised to raise the level of our public discourse would have something to say about this bile. We’ll see. But his track record so far on such matters is not terribly reassuring. And if Mr. Obama has nothing to say about the sewage that is pouring out of the mouths of lawmakers from his own party, it would only be fair to conclude, I think, that his campaign—at least in this respect, at least on these matters—was a well-executed con job (one for which I fell in part). It would also be fairly strong evidence, in fact, that what we saw on display in 2008 was  an unusually cynical and a fundamentally dishonest campaign. That’s something voters might well take into account the next time Obama asks for their support.

It’s true that “Give me four more years, you typical white Slurpee-sippin’ people clinging bitterly to your guns, your religion, and your eight-mile to the gallon giant SUVs with the air conditioning set at 72 degrees” is something of a rather challenging sell, even for the White House equivalent of Don Draper. But it’s possible that for the American people, the novelty hasn’t yet worn off the first president who publicly insults his constituents on a remarkably consistent basis.

Update: “Four More Years?” Related thoughts from John Hinderaker at Power Line.