KRAUTHAMMER: The State of the Presidency? Spent.

Is there a more hackneyed national-greatness cliché than the idea that “If we can walk on the moon . . . ”? Or a more hackneyed facsimile of vision than being “the nation that cures cancer”? Do Obama’s speechwriters not know that it was Richard Nixon who first declared a war on cancer — in 1971?

Given the ahistoric howlers that have previously emerged from this president and his speechwriters, that’s not a rhetorical question.