Jon Meacham: "Akan lebih bagus jika politik berbasis fakta, tetapi tid...

"Akan lebih bagus jika politik berbasis fakta, tetapi tidak, dan tentu saja tidak berbasis nuansa. Apa yang berhasil di ruang kelas atau think tank tidak berfungsi di Capitol Hill atau di Gedung Putih. Obama kadang-kadang tampaknya menjalankan Brookings Institution, bukan negara."

--- Jon Meacham

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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.