◼ Barack Obama keeps looking for a presidential identity not his own. - Victor Davis Hanson/PJM
In 2008, he wished to be JFK — whom he often referenced as a youthful and charismatic figure supposedly similar to himself.... Next candidate Obama channeled his inner Ronald Reagan. He reminded us that that he too had a sense of a new “trajectory.” His supporters swore that he had the same sunny disposition and eloquence. Obama liked that new persona.... That did not last long. When he won the election, Obama now referenced the Civil War, slavery, and the civil rights struggle as he became the Great Emancipator to finally bind up the nation’s wounds. So he was for a bit Barack Lincoln.... But when he assumed office, there being no Civil War, Obama of Chicago Hyde Park now channeled FDR of New York Hyde Park... In this search for another persona after the 2010 disaster, Obama flirted briefly with a Bill Clinton identity.... The Left howled and soon even the New York Times was printing op-eds that Obama was more or less a fraud....
What are we left with in the end? Empty soaring rhetoric of the day, as the president without an identity desperately searches for one about every three months. In the old days the masks were a Bill Ayers for revolutionary fervor, or a Rev. Wright for black fides. Now they are dead presidents.
Where does this lead? Nowhere. Obama’s TR persona is based on an untruth. Today's MUST READ
