Am I the only one to be a little taken aback by the tone of David Sanger’s piece this morning on the president? I guess it’s a “notebook”-style piece and some wry comments are merited. But the unremitting loathing of the president in the prose, the sneers at anything he might say, the contempt for him that oozes out of every sentence: is this supposed to give us confidence that the worst of the Raines era is now over?