Obama’s attempt to reach the stars with his oratory about America reaching its “sputnik moment” failed to take off and ended more like his own Hindenburg moment
President Barack Obama tried mightily to pull a Bill Clinton and move to the political center last night in his State of the Union address. But Obama is no Clinton. His roots are too deeply planted in the soil of progressivism to permit a true conversion. Clinton, on the other hand, had come out of the Democratic Party’s centrist wing and was more of an opportunistic politician than an ideologue.