Barack Obama is back from a semi-world tour that took him from Afghanistan and Iraq to the capitals of Europe, with stops in Israel and Palestine in between. By most accounts, he pulled it off with few gaffes, but some political reporters and pundits are wondering if Obama looked, in the words of NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, “too presidential.” That is, was Obama presumptuously acting like the president before he was elected?
Can a Leader Act “Too Presidential”?
Barack Obama is back from a semi-world tour that took him from Afghanistan and Iraq to the capitals of Europe, with stops in Israel and Palestine in between. By most accounts, he pulled it off with few gaffes, but some political reporters and pundits are wondering if Obama looked, in the words of NBC’s Andrea […]
July 31, 2008
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