Gerson Demythologizes

Michael Gerson, columnist for The Washington Post, takes a sobering look at President Obama:

Obama's initiatives (snip) are not only unpopular; they have made it impossible for him to maintain the pretense of being a unifying, healing, once-in-a-generation leader. It is the agenda that undermined the idiom. With that image stripped away, Americans found Obama to be a somber, thoughtful, touchy, professorial, conventionally liberal political figure.

That "somber, thoughtful, touchy, professorial, conventionally liberal" thing didn't work for President Woodrow Wilson, either.