Aug 262011
While I’m disappointed with several of Obama’s actions as president (the tepid stimulus, the abandonment of the public option, the surrender to Republicans on austerity measures), I can’t criticize the man’s reading choices. The New Yorker looks at Obama’s summer vacation reading list, which skews heavily towards contemporary fiction. I’d be curious to compare Obama’s list to those of Perry and Romney. I’m willing to bet that Perry, assuming he reads at all, is probably still meaning to get around to finishing the last fifty pages of The Shack. Romney seems like the kind of guy who re-reads Atlas Shrugged every couple summers.
Any president who reads David Mitchell has my vote. I’m sure my fellow liberal elites feel the same way.
