“Obama promised to transcend forty years of demographic and ideological trends and reshape Washington politics. In the past three years, though, he has learned that the Presidency is an office uniquely ill-suited for enacting sweeping change. Presidents are buffeted and constrained by the currents of political change. They don’t control them.”

— Barack Obama, Post-Partisan, Meets Washington Gridlock : The New Yorker (via rubenfeld)

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