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Monday, June 10, 2013

Scandal Fatigue: Americans No Longer Trust Obama

Liz Sidoti of The Associated Press:
You can trust me, Obama said back in 2008. And — for a while, at least — a good piece of the country did. 

But with big promises often come big failures — and the potential for big hits to the one thing that can make or break a presidency: credibility. 

A series of mounting controversies is exposing both the risks of political promise-making and the limits of national-level governing while undercutting the core assurance Obama made from the outset: that he and his administration would behave differently.
Op-Ed: Mounting controversies are all about trust

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