"The Choice" - The New Yorker
The Choice
The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/10/29/121029taco_talk_editors?mbid=social_retweet
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One quality that so many voters admired in Obama in 2008 was his unusual temperament: inspirational, yet formal, cool, hyper-rational. He promised to be the least crazy of Presidents, the least erratic and unpredictable. The triumph of that temperament was in evidence on a spring night in 2011, as he performed his duties, with a standups precision and preternatural élan, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, all the while knowing that he had, with no guarantee of success, dispatched Navy SEAL Team Six to kill bin Laden. In the modern era, we have had Presidents who were known to seduce interns (Kennedy and Clinton), talk to paintings (Nixon), and confuse movies with reality (Reagan). Obamas restraint has largely served him, and the country, well.
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