Barack Obama’s efforts to play Huey Long were sidetracked...

"Obama cemented the notion that liberal Democrats are the party of really big money and of very little money — and of few in between."

Three depressing years in review.

Ten Lessons from Obama - National Review Online

OCTOBER 4, 2011 Victor Davis Hanson

In less than three years Barack Obama has reversed all expectations.

The election of Barack Obama brought all sorts of contradictions. A man with about the least prior executive experience in presidential history was suddenly acclaimed a “god” and the smartest man ever to assume the office.

Most important, a number of critical changes were heralded that would help address the supposed disasters of the Bush administration: a new “reset” foreign policy, a Keynesian economic miracle, a commitment to “millions of green jobs,” and a promise to end politics as usual, specifically the hardball divisive rancor of the past. Obamism, in short, was not a mere change in administration, but a religion.

In less than three years, however, the Obama administration has established a far different legacy from the one it promised, and the lessons of 2009–2011 will be with us for a long time:

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