NYT's Mark Leibovich: Obama Team Failed To Change Washington
MARK LEIBOVICH: The Obama experience was fascinating, because it really did begin in 2008 when my chronology begins. And this massive change brigade which had these big ideas about changing Washington, and the president explicitly said that they'd failed. A very smart person is quoted in the book as saying, sort of rhetorically, did we change Washington or did Washington change us? And that very smart person is on this panel right now. So I would say that, look, the Obama administration has been sort of at the pinnacle of celebrity operatives, they've gotten a lot of attention, it's obviously, you know, it's gotten a lot done. The Obama agenda has been realized in many ways, not fully obviously. But I do think that the notion of a changed Washington is a complete myth. Obviously a very effective marketing strategy in 2008. I assume it was genuine then. But I also think that it's gotten a lot of people very very wealthy. I think the whole circle of the revolving door, that this team was supposed to stop has only been intensified.
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