The President Has No Time

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December 02, 2010

"How should a president respond to a job that is increasingly an endless series of emergencies?" asks Slate, noting that the president is constantly struggling "to decide what can benefit from his attention and what's a media creation or a trick of the opposition that will waste his time."

"The conventional wisdom has emerged that the president has not sufficiently connected with voters in his first term... When is he going to find the time? There is always going to be another WikiLeaks emergency. There is always going to be a misbehaving North Korea or a bomb plot that we never hear about but that occupies the president's time. The expectations for presidential action must be reconfigured. The president may still have to pretend that he can do everything, but in truth he has to make wise choices in a frantic world, because the president never gets to Inbox Zero."

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