Essay talk:Qualifications to be President of the United States of America

This is all there ever has been to Barack Obama: symbolism and grandiloquent speeches. And that's all a President is ever asked to do.

"I am not a crook." -- Nixon

"The Long National Nightmare is over." -- Ford

"Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -- Reagan

"Read my lips, no new taxes!" -- G.H.W. Bush

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." --Clinton

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." -- G.W. Bush