President Obama wants Americans to know before he leaves office that many of them were only unhappy with his administration due to a “fictional” representation promulgated by conservative media outlets. The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates recently sat down with Mr. Obama for a series the magazine calls “My President Was Black.” The project is based on interviews conducted Oct. 19, but the first two parts were published Tuesday and Wednesday. “I’m not saying I’m impervious to criticism — but one of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there’s Barack Obama the person and there’s Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power,” Mr. Obama said while recounting a brusque encounter with an activist. Click to read the rest of the article by Douglas Ernst – The Washington Times
Obama: Americans criticize ‘fictional character named Barack’ created by Fox News
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