As the Obama administration moves toward the March 24 deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Iran, what becomes ever more clear is that no other American president has so confused personal entitlement with political trust.

In David Axelrod’s memoir of his time with Barack Obama, he relates how the freshman senator from Illinois remarked on his impending presidential run: “It may not be exactly the time I would pick, but sometimes the times pick you.” The aura of entitlement has never stopped.

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