Barack Obama's Snake Oil By Joan Swirsky

Handsome, intelligent, charismatic, blessed with a golden tongue, and irresistible to his besotted followers, Elmer Gantry--the title character of Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 novel--inspired his supporters to swoon, indeed faint, at his seductive oratory. He told them they were “sinners,” then gave them “hope” that they could “change” if they would only follow his path to redemption. As it turned out, Gantry was a fraud--a sinner himself--ultimately exposed and discredited.

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