Barack Obama in The Long Game, by Mitch McConnell

On Principles & Values: OpEd: Obama tries to make you think he's smartest in room

A lot of people ask me what President Obama is really like. I tell everyone the same thing. He's no different in private than in public. He's like the kid in class who exerts a hell of a lot of effort to make sure everyone knows he's the smartest one in the room. He talks down to people, whether addressing the nation, in a meeting with colleagues, or addressing the White house. And he's simply a very liberal guy who's determined to move the country toward the kind of progressive ideal that Western European societies embraced decades ago. He has a bold progressive agenda, and if he can't get what he wants through the legislative branch, he'll do so through bureaucracy. For someone who came up through the senate, the presidents influence (or hostility, depending on how you look at it) to Congress is curious. Knowing I could do little to change his perspective on things, my goal has been to stop him when I think he's pushing ideas that are bad for the country. Source: The Long Game, by Mitch McConnell, p.185 May 31, 2016

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