Quoted on today’s Meet the Press
“The modern presidency–Barack Obama’s presidency–has become a job of such gargantuan size, speed, and complexity as to be all but unrecognizable to most of the previous chief executives. The sheer growth of the federal government, the paralysis of Congress, the systemic corruption brought on by lobbying, the trivialization of the `news'” by the “media have made today’s Washington a depressing and dysfunctional place. They have shaped and at times hobbled the presidency itself.”
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