Christopher Caldwell says President Obama misled people in a more fundamental way than politicians normally do.
There is no evidence that Mr Obama is less honest than others of his profession ? but the thing he has chosen to misrepresent is of towering importance. Other presidents have broken campaign promises, whether explicit (such as George H.W. Bush?s promise of no new taxes) or implicit (Mr Reagan?s promise to fight abortion). Mr Obama?s misrepresentation was of a graver kind. It is not that he did not do the things he said he would. It is that he is not the person he said he was.
