The New York Times's adoring piece on Obama's management style is by no means the worst example of the press's love affair with the Democratic nominee, but it does give me an excuse to quote from James MacGregor Burns's brilliant satire on the press coverage of JFK in his first year in office (written way before it became fashionable to debunk the myth of a new Camelot):
He is not only the handsomest, the best dressed, the most articulate, and graceful as a gazelle. He is ominiscient; he swallows and digests whole books in minutes; his eye seizes instantly on the crucial point in a long memorandum; he confounds experts with superior knowledge of the field. He is omnipresent; no sleepy staff member can be sure that he will not telephone - or pop in; every hostess at a party can hope that he will. He is omnipotent; he personally bosses and spurs the whole shop; he has no need of Ike's staff apparatus; he is more than a lion, more than a fox. He's Superman.
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