The slobbering love-affair between Barack Obama and the far left is definitely over.

One of the most widely-read liberal columnists in the United States, The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, has turned on Obama.

In a vicious column published Sunday, Dowd calls Obama an "elitist," "thin-skinned" and "controlling," a "crybaby" and "contemptuous" of his critics.

Dowd is especially upset with Obama's treatment of the mainstream media, which worked so hard and so openly to get Obama elected in 2008.

From Dowd's column:

Like many Democrats, he thinks the press is supposed to be on his side.

The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines.

It hurts Obama to be a crybaby about it, and to blame the press and the "old Washington game" for his own communication failures.

Read the full column, "Isn't It Ironic?," at the newspaper's Web site.