Presidents’ Day is today. I teach and write about presidents, and thus Presidents’ Day always prompts me to strange musings concerning our past chief executives. This year is no exception, as I’m thinking about six particular presidents: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, FDR, Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman. How could I possibly connect these six? What might they have in common? Bear with me — I’ll start and end with Obama. Barack Obama, and particularly his re-election campaign, has achieved something quite dubious of a sitting president, and which his liberal ... Read More