The Paradox of Obama’s Style

Washington Post: “President Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own administration.”

“The president’s inconsistency is so befuddling that not even his critics can get it straight. They simultaneously charge that he is ‘leading from behind’ and that he is displaying, in the words of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH), ‘the arrogance of power.'”