last updated: July 1, 2013 7:36 pm Obama and the crumbling of a liberal fantasy hero
Gideon Rachman By Gideon Rachman
It has taken a long time, but the world’s fantasies about Barack Obama are finally crumbling. In Europe, once the headquarters of the global cult of Obama, the disillusionment is particularly bitter. Monday’s newspapers were full of savage quotes about the perfidy of the Obama-led US.