Michael Hastings’ new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president’s relationship with the troops.
The book describes a visit to Baghdad:
After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain.
He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad.
He’s asked to go out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers.
He’s asked to sign copies of his book.
“He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me.
“Look, I was excited to meet him.
I wanted to like him.
Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did.
These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take ****ing pictures with them?”
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