There’s a long feature on the up-coming “Obamas” book in the Ny Times this morning, and it’s not all gossip.. Some of these stories are important to understand some of the strategic movements in Obama’s 1. term – and it also seems to reveal a couple of the rookie mistakes that were being done early on, due to Barack’s lack of management skills and experience.
It’s also a reminder that the third year has brought some palpable changes to the Presidents choice of acitivities (spending lots of hours on touring/selling the Jobs Act), and to his shift of attitude from always consensus and “legitimate viewpoints”, to sometimes spelling out that some of these extremist’s positions are just plain “wrong”.
Full story here.