Kuttner: He's the real deal.

"Barack Obama's speech on the financial crisis was a remarkable breakthrough...I wish I had written the speech. It is this kind of leadership and truth-telling that is the predicate for the shift in public opinion required to produce legislative change. A radical, appropriately nuanced, and deeply public-minded description of what has occurred, the speech was Roosevelt quality: the president as teacher-in-chief."

The American Prospect's Robert Kuttner praises Obama's economics speech of yesterday, and calls out Paul Krugman for his blatant partisanship: "Unlike some of my friends, I have not fallen in love with Obama...But Krugman, ordinarily an ornament of fair-minded progressive economics commentary, writes almost as if he has become part of the Clinton campaign. His latest characterization of Obama's proposals in commenting on the New York speech -- 'cautious and relatively orthodox' -- was preposterous."