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He turns after the first two years of Obama presidency - that the "easy" before the midterm elections of that fateful, as almost always happens, will shift the balance in favor of the opposition of Congress.
The New York Times Magazine is proposing a budget with a articolone Peter Baker built a long time interviewing the president, but also many members of his staff.
While Obama strives to show off optimism and claim "the many important things have already been completed" (70% of the program, according to him), admitting only (with a provincial air that we might be vaguely Berlusconi) had been unable to value them enough in the public eye, leaving a very dark-hued photography:

[President] finds himself vilified by the right, punished and abandoned by the left from the center. Is facing the last phase of the campaign for the mid-term elections as a kind of repudiation by voters.
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What strikes Obama's self-diagnosis is that even according to his interpretation, the character in 2008, which was a source of inspiration he has actually lost inspiration after being elected. It was not kept in touch with the people themselves who had chosen. E 'but soon managed to annoy, at the same time, and those who considered him the embodiment of a new progressive movement, and those who expected it to be able to climb over the sides of the part and bring the country into a new season "postpartisan".
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the White House two years ago were ready to dig a new place on Mount Rushmore for the face of their leader, now privately admit that Obama can not be a new Abraham Lincoln. [...] "I'm not saying that we believed ourselves to our press releases, but no doubt the beginning there was the feeling among us that we were actually able to change Washington," said an official of the White House. "Arrogance is not the right word, but we say that we have overestimated."
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Obama aides who have recently left the White House were impressed by how much things "seen from the outside seem different, and worse. [...] After laciato his post as director of the budget the White House, Peter Orzag was stunned to discover what had become the deep chasm between the president and the corporate world. [...]
The isolation is a curse that affects all the presidents, but Obama, more than any other president since Jimmy Carter, has proved an introverted person, one who live like an exhausting contact with groups of people outside his inner circle. He knows how to harangue a stadium of 80 thousand people, but that kind of audience is a monolith impersonal meetings with small groups but can cause problems. [...] When [Bill] Clinton was a man who phoned late at night around Washington to dispense or ask for advice, Obama rarely goes beyond the narrow group of his advisers [...] and his personal friends. "It 's dark even for us," said his assistant. "Except, perhaps, that few people in his inner circle, is a closed book." Partly for security reasons, n his address emaild BlackBerry have it around 15 people.
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Obama calls for patience in an age of impatience. A prominent Democrat told me that the problem is that Obama does not know the uncertainty - always considered to be the smartest person in the room, any room is located, and no evidence that panic never a good attacking constantly political, forcing him to frantically courting the parliamentarians, the powers that be, opponents and voters, as if you were ever a week from the upcoming elections. Instead, what you hear constantly tell the attendants that Obama is the system "is not equal." It is a phrase you hear constantly say to the West Wing, "is not equal." No

particularly shocking revelation, but it is the first time you happen to read the main newspaper content from the U.S. assessment as definitive.