Commentary

Miss Me Yet? George W. Bush’s Clarity Exposes Obama’s Deficiencies

By Troy Senik
Thursday, November 18 2010

DALLAS -- Most truths in American life reveal themselves in the market long before they seep into the broader public consciousness. A tourist walking the crowded streets of Washington in January 2009 would have seen every storefront window crowded with iconography heralding the incoming Obama Administration, from life-size cardboard cutouts to the ubiquitous “hope” t-shirts that portrayed Obama in a stenciled aesthetic uncomfortably reminiscent of Jim Fitzpatrick’s legendary Che Guevara poster.

Then something curious happened. Within several months, Obama…

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