Since 2008, Barack Obama has struggled with how precisely to define his presidency. Was he the risk-ready transformer his base hoped for and his opponents feared? The hope-and-change candidate who promised to move beyond Washington’s partisan, shark-infested waters? Or was he the risk-averse transactor who by 2014 was talking more soberly about hitting singles and doubles? That year he somewhat mournfully told the New Yorker’s David Remnick that he was just trying to get his paragraph right in America’s long-running story.
Even after his 2012 re-election, which put him on track to join the very small club of 13 presidents who …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
