The Threat of Intelligent, Articulate Oratory

Straw Man in Chief

Historian Victor Davis Hansen likens President Obama to the Wizard of Oz, a fraud behind a curtain in one of the most recent of his anti-Obama columns. He claims the "messianic spell" has been broken. After a round of shrill accusations like:

no president in 78 years has done more to incite class resentment, envy, and polarization—and that fact is as shocking as the sun rising in the morning...

he complains of others criticizing former presidents with the line "(a)nd are not we all tired of such empty superlatives?"