Obama on Kanya: the Triumph of Irrelevance over Experience

The problem with this is not that an ABC News reporter tweeted an off the record conversation.  The problem with this is that we do not actually need the president's opinion on every issue facing America.

Update:  Okay, sorry, I wasn't criticizing Obama.  I was criticizing a news culture that thinks that this is, well, news, whether it was on or off the record.  Who cares what Barack Obama thinks about Kanye West?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/09/obama-on-kanya-the-triumph-of-irrelevance-over-experience/26584/