Donald E. Pease, the Director of The Futures of American Studies Institute, explains how President Obama can regain ground he's lost to birthers, tea party organzers, and death panelists and reclaim the "state fantasy." Pease is the author of The New American Exceptionalism, published in October by the University of Minnesota Press. He is a Professor of English, the Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. (less info)