realist ping
...”Obama may give soaring Wilsonian speeches abroad”...
Please, Dr. Hanson, stop repeating this patent falsehood. Barack Obama is not a great speaker. He apparently can read someone else’s words from a TelePrompter but on his feet without his crutch he makes GWB sound like Sir Laurence Olivier.
Furthermore, it’s to the point that the tone of his voice, the cadence of his speech, affect me like the sound of fingernails on a school chalkboard. It’s become Pavlovian - I get nauseated and angry with the fools of this country who did this to all of us.