Obama Wishes He Could Go “Bulworth”
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John Gurzinski/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Everyone’s got a fantasy, even President Obama.
At the moment, he’d probably wish that all the recent scandals encumbering his administration would just go away.
While that’s not possible, a story in The New York Times reveals that Obama has told people within his inner circle that he just feels like cutting loose sometimes and tell the public what he really thinks, a la Warren Beatty’s character from the 1998 movie, Bulworth.
In the film, Beatty plays a liberal U.S. senator who cracks under intense pressure and turns into a truth-telling rapper, rocking the Washington establishment but also winning the admiration of Americans.
Of course, Obama probably wouldn’t want to follow in the exact footsteps of the Bulworth character, who takes out a contract on his own life.
Still, the president would probably like the freedom to say what he really thinks.
Close advisor David Axelrod tells the Times, “Probably every president says that from time to time. It’s probably cathartic just to say it. But the reality is that while you want to be truthful, you want to be straightforward, you also want to be practical about whatever you’re saying.”
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