Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, June 21, 2009 6:18:24 AM
"This list of distortions could be easily expanded. President Obama, in elegant fashion, may casually invoke the means of politically correct history for the higher ends of contemporary reconciliation. But it is a bad habit. Eloquence and good intentions exempt no one from the truth of the past — President Obama included."
Clio, the muse of History
Our Historically Challenged President
A list of distortions.
By Victor Davis Hanson
In his speech last week in Cairo, President Obama proclaimed he was a “student of history.” But despite Barack Obama’s image as an Ivy League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency, in areas of both facts and interpretation.
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