Anna Quindlen, who spoke on "Choices and Changes" in the Bryan Series in April, assesses Barack Obama's presidency to date in Newsweek's Nov. 2 cover story.
She writes: "This president promised to tackle the big stuff, swiftly, decisively, and in a fashion about which he was unequivocal, and voters took him at his word a year ago ... He is methodical, thoughtful, cerebral, a believer in consensus and process. In an incremental system, Barack Obama is an incremental man ... The president is a person of nuance. But on both ends of the political number line, nuance is seen as wishy-washy ...That's really how our government works, by inches."
She concludes by challenging readers: "So if the American people want the president to be more like the Barack Obama they elected, maybe they should start acting more like the voters who elected him, who forcibly and undeniably moved the political establishment to where it didn't want to go."
Quindlen, the former columnist, now writes occasional stories for the magazine.
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