When This Blows Over

INDY67
5/7/2016 2:40 PM EDT
The only thing that Obama's supporters want is "free" everything. The
truth is not important. Typical Chicago-Style politics except that Obama
should be criminally charged on the Iran deal, Obamacare and the rest.
It’s amazing that the media gives him such a free pass... oh, it’s because
they help elect the guy.
Meri
5/7/2016 1:13 PM EDT [Edited]
I'm only half way through, but that NYT piece is fascinating. However,
it's so unlike the summary presented here, I have to wonder what the
heck this writer was thinking.
Here's the section on Rhodes' disdain for the NYT and the Wash Post:
One result of this experience was that when Rhodes joined the Obama
campaign in 2007, he arguably knew more about the Iraq war than the
candidate himself, or any of his advisers. He had also developed a
healthy contempt for the American foreign-policy establishment,
including editors and reporters at The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The New Yorker and elsewhere, who at first applauded the Iraq
war and then sought to pin all the blame on Bush and his merry band of
neocons when it quickly turned sour.
Meri
5/7/2016 1:18 PM EDT [Edited]
The central theme of the piece is that Rhodes is brilliant at conveying
other people's true thoughts more clearly than they could themselves. He
started out as an aspiring fiction writer, but changed course when he saw
one of the World Trade Towers come down on 9/11. He is presented as
having virtually no personal ego.
Apparently, he spends many hours each day talking with Obama and is
thus able to convey exactly what the President thinks on foreign policy.