WSJ: The Obsolescence of Barack Obama

By Fouad Ajami - The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it. ∴ 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." Read more at the Wall Street Journal... Read More......