First-term Obama gave a massive blank check to corrupt Wall Street, expanded a revolting covert drone assassination program, and greatly widened the president’s powers of secrecy and classification, while prosecuting leakers (and even journalists) in record numbers. Halperin/Heilemann blew all of that off. In their prologue about the run-up to 2012, they barely mentioned Obama’s record. The one descriptive line about policy was, “Change had come slowly when it came at all.” Then they wrote a 386-page book about how Obama found his magic three-pointer just in time to get re-elected. The larger
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