And neither was any other president
(NEWSER) - Why do we expect President Obama to plug the Gulf oil leak, squelch the Taliban, reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians, and forge a global treaty on greenhouse gases? Because "Americans like to read politics and history as a tale of the Great Man," Paul Starobin writes in the Washington Post . We're "eager subscribers to the Hercules myth of how the world works," and Obama in particular seems more than happy to play into that myth. More»
