What a great headline for this week's Peggy Noonan column in the Wall Street Journal (currently unblocked by any paywall), describing the situation with our current President. (By the way, happy 50th birthday, Mr. Obama!)
But this passage about Reagan is what struck me,
"They say Republicans can't get over Reagan, but really it's Democrats who aren't over him, and who draw the wrong lessons from his success. Reagan himself never bragged about his ability to convince the American people...He thought speaking was a big part of leadership, but only part, and in his farewell address he went out of his way to say he never thought of himself as a great communicator. He thought he simply communicated great things—essentially, the vision of the founders as applied to current circumstances."
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