(1) F. Rich: Was his brilliant presidential campaign as hollow as Tiger’s public image? (2) D. Broder: Democrats aren't backing their own president.

Frank Rich writes in The New York Times:

Though the American left and right don’t agree on much, they are both now coalescing around the suspicion that Obama’s brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger’s public image — a marketing scam designed to camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it) or spineless timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither, but after a decade of being spun silly, Americans can’t be blamed for being cynical about any leader trying to sell anything. As we say goodbye to the year of Tiger Woods, it is the country, sad to say, that is left mired in a sand trap with no obvious way out.
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And David Broder writes in The Washington Post:

In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand up and defend him. I never thought we'd see Barack Obama face a similar problem before his first year was over.

But as Obama's approval scores (50 percent in the latest Post-ABC News poll) sink, it is getting harder and harder to find a full-throated supporter of the president.

You need go no further from here than the op-ed page of Thursday's Post to see what I mean. Time was, and not all that long ago, when The Post was thought of as the "liberal paper" in Washington, a reliable advocate of the kind of policies pursued by Democratic presidents.