In his America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and Inheritance,” Steve Sailer compares O. to an art forger who had his principles, among them not to sign Rembrandt to the Rembrandt fakes which he artfully drew on 17th-century paper, figuring that if museums were dumb and greedy enough to buy a masterpiece cheap or think that’s what they were doing, it was their problem, not his. So Obama during his presidential campaign (pp. 184-185)

. . . . prefer[red]to mislead without lying outright. He like[d] to obscure the truth under so many thoughtful nuances, dependent clauses, Proustian details, lawyerly evasions, and eloquent summarizations of his opponents’ arguments that the members of his audience ultimately just make up little daydreams about how he must agree with them. Rather like Hebborn [the forger], Obama seems to feel that he’s not to blame if the press and public want to be fooled.

“I can’t say I blame him,” adds Sailer. Ah those thoughtful nuances.  They send me.