Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Peter Robinson ·
September 18, 2012 at 11:22pm
Over at the Weekly Standard, Andy Ferguson writes about "Obama's Way," Michael Lewis's fulsome portrait of the president in the current Vanity Fair. It seems odd, Andy notes, that Lewis, pictured here with Obama, chooses to center his article on president's decision to intervene in Libya. In the first place, the president made the decision a year before Lewis and his notebook turned up at the White House gates.
And in the second?
Lewis neglects to mention that in the long catalog of the president's foreign policy-making, the Libyan intervention is an anomaly—an intervention from an administration notable for its reluctance to intervene in anything but the American economy.
Ah, Andy. There's no writer like him.
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Jun '10
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Mr. Lewis left some of his interview gear behind:
Aug '10
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
More Ferguson: "Lewis discovers, for example, that President Obama is required to make many decisions in his job. He makes fewer of them than we might hope, of course, as in his temporizing response to the Syrian uprising; and the ones he does make are ones we might wish he hadn’t made, as in his insistence on spending so [CoC violation] much money."
Apr '11
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Peter Robinson
Ah, Andy. There's no writer like him. · · 2 hours ago
I think we're on the same page; there's no better WS writer not called Hemingway, right? If you're suggesting that the qualification isn't needed, though, I'm going to have to sleep the disturbed sleep of a man who has failed to agree with you, but doesn't know why he's wrong.
May '10
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Andy Ferguson is amazing at dissecting language. Whenever he does speech analysis he is at his best. I humbly request that he has a podcast appearance.
Apr '11
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
I would direct your attention to the Member Feed post 'Fresh Air and Orwell'. CAUTION: Listening to the interview may cause nausea.
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Well, I'll tell him you asked, but Andy's just astonishingly difficult to land. (Getting him to promise to join us is easy. Pinning down a date? That's the rub.)
Sep '12
Re: Andrew Ferguson on "Obama's Way"
Love the Andy Ferguson article, almost as much as I love the Vanity Fair piece by Lewis. No doubt Andy is far better writer, and he holds political views much closer to my own than Lewis'; but I just get a kick out left-wing writers that write these glorious articles that apotheosizes THE ONE.
This part of Lewis article made me smile:
"Guys on his team dribbled past him and ignored the fact he was wide open. When he drives through the streets, crowds part, but when he drives to the basket large, hostile men slide over to cut him off. It’s revealing that he would seek out a game like this but even more that others would give it to him: no one watching would have been able to guess which guy was president"