Excellent John Sides montage of how the media raises unrealistic expectations and mis-depicts presidential authority:
The Afghanistan cover seems fair enough, since in practice congress and the courts grant the President almost unlimited latitude in national security policy. But on health care, the President is clearly much more powerful than any individual Senator or House member, but collectively congress has more authority. On the economy, not only does the President need to share power with Congress, but the quasi-independent Fed exercises vast influence.
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