Mike Allen shares an excerpt from Ron Suskind’s new book, “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President,” which features an exclusive interview from President Obama about the first years of his presidency.
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I think one of the criticisms that is absolutely legitimate about my first two years was that I was very comfortable with a technocratic approach to government … a series of problems to be solved. … Carter, Clinton and I all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks.
The ‘disease,’ that plagues Obama is not that he is too “technocratic” or “wonkish,” when it comes to policy, its just that his policies are too liberal.
As for Carter and Clinton, I think “policy wonk” is the last description I would use for either of them.
