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Friday, August 13, 2010

The Obsolescence of Barack Obama

From: The Wall Street Journal

The Obsolescence of Barack Obama: The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704164904575421363005578460.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook


Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation's rescue. Now it is to Lyndon B. Johnson's unhappy presidency that Democratic strategist Robert Shrum compares the stewardship of Mr. Obama. Johnson, wrote Mr. Shrum in the Week magazine last month, never "sustained an emotional link with the American people" and chose to escalate a war that "forced his abdication as president." . . . . .

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