The Lethal Presidency Of Barack Obama

"I wish that I was a really good narrative writer. If I had one dream, it would be that. But I'm not. So I have to sort of figure out what to do on the edges." — Tom Junod, in Mayborn Magazine

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You are a good man. You are an honorable man. You are both president of the United States and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. You are both the most powerful man in the world and an unimpeachably upstanding citizen. You place a large premium on being beyond reproach. You have become your own deliberative body, standing not so much by your decisions as by the process by which you make them. You are not only rational; you are a rationalist. You think everything through, as though it is within your…