Obama: "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors"
America apparently replaced our incurious president with a know-it-all president. From this New Yorker article exactly two years ago:
Patrick Gaspard, the [Obama] campaign’s political director, said that when, in early 2007, he interviewed for a job with Obama and Plouffe, Obama said that he liked being surrounded by people who expressed strong opinions, but he also said, “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
Wow! What kind of person believes they know more about EVERYTHING than everyone else? And what kind of politician would actually SAY that?
I found this quotation while reading The Weekly Standard’s “American Narcissus: The Vanity of Barack Obama”, a depressingly believable portrait of a president too supremely confident in (and focused on) himself to ask the right questions, seek out the right advisors, and fight for the powerless who are counting on him to fight for them.
Posted by James on Wednesday, November 17, 2010