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As You May Recall, Truman Was Extremely Unpopular When He Finally Left Washington In 1953, Thanks Largely To The Korean War. Today, However, He Is Thought To Have Been A Solidly Good President, A 'near Great' Even, In The Terminology Of Those Surveys Of Historians They Do Every Now And Then.

We Are Watching Industries Crumble, Wall Street Firms Disappear, Unemployment Spike, And Unprecedented Government Intervention. And Our Designated Opinion Leaders Want To Know: Is Obama Up This Week? Is He Down? And Is His Leadership Style More Like Bill Clinton's, Or Abraham Lincoln's?

Whereas Liberals Are Thought To Erupt Self-righteously Whenever They Feel Like It, Conservatives Believe That They Themselves Are Never Permitted To Say What They Really Think.

They, The Conservatives, Are The Real Outsides, They Tell Us, Gazing With Disgust Upon The Ludicrous Manners Of The High And Mighty. Or, They Tell Us, They Are Rough-and-ready Proles, Laughing Along With Us At The Efforts Of Our Social "betters" To Reform And Improve Us. That They Are Often, In Fact, People Of Privilege Doing Their Utmost To Boost The Fortunes Of A Political Party That Is The Traditional Tool Of The Privileged Is A Contradiction That Does Not Trouble Them.

When The Entertainers Of The Right Aren’t Declaring Their Disgust With President Obama For Groveling Before Foreign Potentates, They’re Pretending To Fear Him As A Left-wing Thug, An Exemplar Of What They Call “the Chicago Way.”