Michael Tomasky: Obama and winning and losing

Politico co-editors Harris and VandeHei have co-authored a big think piece today, the kind of thing designed to generate conversation, so let's have one. They write:

The imminent passage of financial reform, just a couple months after the passage of comprehensive health care, should decisively end the narrative that President Obama represents a Jimmy Carter-style case of naïve hope crushed by the inability to master Washington.

Yet the mystery remains: Having moved swiftly toward achieving the...