05-24-2016, 11:03 PM
Obama 2008 may be the most unlikely 'serious' Presidential candidate in this group. He's a typical mature Reactive, the sort of President that one usually gets as the Crisis winds down or after it has wound down. The gross failure of Dubya made him possible. Would he have followed a better Boom (Gore?) or Silent (Lugar? Voinovich?) President than Dubya? Probably not.
He may have been 47 when he took the Presidency, but he certainly acted about 15 years older.
He may have been 47 when he took the Presidency, but he certainly acted about 15 years older.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
