In terms of domestic affairs and domestic policy, the greatest and most significant president of the last sixty years was Lyndon B. Johnson. Period. He is rarely acknowledged or credited as such, especially by the liberals whose agenda he enacted with energy and skill (and let that be a warning to all would-be liberal presidents...the liberals' sense of entitlement is utterly insatiable), but we all live in Lyndon Johnson's America. Ronald Reagan came into the presidency openly declaring war on The Great Society, and left eight years later having failed to make even the slightest dent.
Obama doesn't have a tenth of LBJ's legislative expertise and experience. He doesn't have LBJ's cunning, savvy, and sheer ruthlessness for lawmaking. He doesn't have Johnson's appetite for wheeling and dealing and bargaining and bullying lawmakers.
He'd much rather be a movie star.
And that's why, in the final analysis, conservatives and Republicans have little to fear from Obama. Simply put, he's no L.B.J.
