POWERLINE: OBAMA ISN'T A MERE BULLSHITTER,

HE'S A BULLSHIT ARTIST:

Some day it may begin to dawn on attentive observers that Obama represents a type that flourishes on many college campuses. The technical term that applies to Obama is b.s. artist. Obama is an overaged example of the phenomenon, but his skills in the art have brought him great success and he's not giving it up now.

Powerline is echoing the comments of a poster at Patterico:

When I was going to college, there was a dude, a B.M.O.C., who was the best at everything to hear him tell it. He was always hitting on the coeds, or lying about his accomplishments both to facultiy and fellow students. Barrack was, without doubt this sort of person. Bullshit is bullshit. This idiot will say anything and then deny he said it.

I remember the type.  We used to speak of getting out the shovel when these guys talked.  A not unusual type was something of an outsider who thought he was imitating what everyone else was doing and saying.  If you read Obama's memoir, you find Obama directly stating that this is what he found himself doing during his young life, imitating what he thinks others are doing . So this life as a bullshit artist is a lifelong behavior patter for Obama.

BONUS:  Harry Frankfurt, "On Bullshit" -- the Power Point presentation. (google html with link to PPT document).