Hope, 2010
‘The charges are familiar: He’s a compromiser who hasn’t stood up to the GOP or Wall Street. But a look at his record reveals something even more startling – a truly historic presidency’
Rolling Stone takes a look at what’s really been going on in the White House. Great read. Shows how how Obama is brilliantly working the system – whether or not the media is reporting on it.
Call me crazy, but I believe that our president should actually be a really smart person.
I know. Insane concept for the United States to stomach.
the west wing
Also this week – in a bit of patriotic looniness – I spent some time touring The White House via this site.
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I’d never actually known that the West Wing is not part of the main building, but an offshoot hidden in the trees. Never been to D.C., but now I know why Josiah Bartlet was always walking outside to work.
I just thought it was cause he liked to smoke.
Pictured: Cover art for Tariq Ali’s The Obama Syndrome, The West Wing 1968, from Life Magazine, via White House Museum
