RealClearPolitics "In [White House image-maker's] telling, Barack Obama's greatness was foreshadowed by actions of almost every U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge. (Inexplicably, Gerald Ford was left out of the revisionism. One assumes it was an oversight.) "The word for this kind of thing is Orwellian, and it's overused in American politics today. Or, maybe not. The phrase comes from "1984," George Orwell's postwar classic. The novel is set in a frightening future controlled by a leader (Big Brother) whose power is enhanced by a pervasive cult of personality."
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