Peggy Noonan tries to encapsulate Presidents in one sentence

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To-Do List: A Sentence, Not 10 Paragraphs By trying to do too much, he risks not doing enough. By PEGGY NOONAN
Something seems off with our young president. He appears jarred....defensive and peevish with the press...later...on health care, when he got nailed by a neurologist ..."Eroding confidence in President Barack Obama...Independents and some Republicans who once viewed him sympathetically are "becoming skeptical."
...The Sentence comes from a story Clare Boothe Luce told about a conversation she had in 1962 in the White House with her old friend John F. Kennedy. She told him, she said, that "a great man is one sentence." His leadership can be so well summed up in a single sentence that you don't have to hear his name to know who's being talked about. "He preserved the union and freed the slaves," or, "He lifted us out of a great depression and helped to win a World War." You didn't have to be told "Lincoln" or "FDR."...Mr. Obama is not seeing his sentence. He's missing it. This is the sentence history has given him: "He brought America back from economic collapse and kept us strong and secure in the age of terror." That's all anybody wants. It's all that's needed....There is a persistent sense of extraneous effort, of ambitions too big and yet too small, too off point, too base-pleading, too ideological, too unaware of the imperatives. And there is the depressing psychological effect of seeing government grow so much, so big, so fast. This encourages a sense that things are out of control and cannot be made better....Do we have anything like a bipartisan strategy for our age? Not nearly....It is amazing we don't even talk about this....Mr. Obama cannot replace his sentence with 10 paragraphs, and he can't escape it, either....
****Peggy Noonan's sentence for Obama, "He brought America back from economic collapse and kept us strong and secure in the age of terror."is aspirational, but unrealistic. Realistically, we're working on the following sentence: "Weakening the country on both domestic and international scenes, he pushed Nanny Statism at home while offending allies and appeasing enemies abroad."
Instead of a sentence, we can think of a couplet:
" Vague words sounded strong,
Acts were clear but wrong." ****