LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND PRESIDENTIAL LIES: Every untruth damages the nation.

When Barack Obama squanders his own credibility with his glib lies, he is not just injuring himself during his time in office. He is inflicting a lasting wound on the country as a whole.

But we the voters are not blameless. Having chosen an untested man to be president, on the basis of rhetoric, style, and symbolism, we have ourselves to blame if we now have only a choice between two potentially tragic fates....

It's not fatal -- yet. I hope.

UPDATE: I'll give Victor Davis Hanson the hopeful last word.