Summer Reading II: Confidence Men
It is a fascination to steal a glimpse into the inner working of the most powerful elites in democracy which at times proves hazardous: the spontaneity the American people propelled a smart community organizer, who is a complete outsider of the Belt Way, to the presidency is symbolically powerful but tragically comical. The President is at the mercy of his staff, the perpetual party machine, which in turn falls prey to heavy lobbyists of the Big money. Officials generally have a weakness yearning for lifestyle, and officialdom / elected status is a ticket to wealth depending on how hard one's worked for special interest, as they are reincarnated over and again, rotating between government/Capitol Hill offices and Wall Street law firms and financial corner offices. A case in point: intimacy between Treasury & Goldman Sach , SEC and Justice and the corporate law firms.(per Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone ) Obama selected the best mind from mostly the academia and believed