Theatlantic.com 9/18/2014
“… Americans ask a lot of our presidents. We ask, you could reasonably argue, too much of our presidents. We ask them not just to champion legislation, to lead powerful armed forces, to be heads of state, to be heads of political parties, to be constantly campaigning; we ask them also to lead us in a way that is fuzzier and yet, in some sense, more meaningful. We ask them to entertain us. We ask them to inspire us. …”
Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/how-our-presidents-became-our-celebrities/380420/
