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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (147898)	12/21/2014 1:49:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149319

Not everything. Why do you use language like that? But too many things. So here are two examples" Now neither of these guys made this stuff up. They have big reputations to protect and both are known for honesty. Chuck Todds book "The stranger: P. 169 "The white House did little to dispel the notion that Obama came first over and above the party. After all, for the first time EVER, a new president came in and, instead of using the official party headquarters as his presidential base of operation, he and his team decided to start up a competitor of sorts--they called it Organizing for America, the OFA a play off the campaign initials Obama for America. After his second term win, this decision to keep the Obama campaign apparatus separate from the party would continue. First of all, Todd is honest..........on what planet? Secondly, the reception to his book has been anything but glowing: If that is the case, his book is at best a disappointment. At almost every turn, he fails to move our understanding of this president beyond pop-psychology interpretations of his relationship to his mother, his childhood, and his time at the Harvard Law Review—territory well explored by the president himself and in books like David Remnick’s The Bridge.At its worst, The Stranger merely recycles the biases, conventional wisdom, and cynical bitterness of inside-the-beltway habitués. thedailybeast.com BTW I see no 'second guy' in your post.