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Gene Healy has churned out a new edition on presidential power. In the process, your diarist argues<\/a> in the American Spectator today, he also wrote another, more useful book:<\/p>\n

Candidate Barack Obama presented himself as an agent of hope and change, a dramatic break with the failed policies and cynical politics of a tired, retiring president. That is not, to put it mildly, how things have panned out. Once electoral fervor dies down, scholars will surely notice something rather awkward: from a distance, the first term of the Obama administration looks a whole lot like a third term for George W. Bush<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gene Healy has churned out a new edition on presidential power. In the process, your diarist argues in the American Spectator today, he also wrote another, more useful book: Candidate Barack Obama presented himself as an agent of hope and change, a dramatic break with the failed policies and cynical politics of a tired, retiring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-83"],"yoast_head":"\nBush's Third Term<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gene Healy has churned out a new edition on presidential power. 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