November 21, 2013 - 6:00pm
Lacking convictions of his own, Charlie Crist was always going to glom onto Barack Obama's.
What he was, he was:
What he is fated to become
Depends on us.
-- W.H. Auden, "Elegy for JFK" (1964)
BOSTON -- He has become fodder for an interpretation industry toiling to make his life malleable enough to soothe the sensitivities and serve the agendas of the interpreters. The quantity of writing about him is inversely proportional to the brevity of his presidency.