The Obama Memos
An incredibly fascinating article from the New Yorker. But how on earth do they get this kind of information? It’s like they’re spying on the Oval Office….
Are they spying on the Oval Office?
Also, there’s this line..
“Obama was learning the same lesson of many previous occupants of the Oval Office: he didn’t have the power that one might think he had. Harry Truman, one in a long line of Commanders-in-Chief frustrated by the limits of the office, once complained that the President “has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues… . The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
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