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Russ Baker - Obama’s Only Friend Left?
January 5, 2012 Is it just me or does anyone else find it poignant how isolated the president is? Has very few friends, and fewer all the time?
Is it just me or is anyone else curious about the only real outsider in his shrinking circle of friends? Robert Wolf?
From [2] the New York Times article titled “Obama Gains Reputation as Distant in Washington”:
Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role. ….more often than not, he keeps Congress and official Washington at arm’s length, spending his down time with a small — and shrinking — inner circle of aides and old friends.
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…His social life runs toward evenings playing Taboo with old friends and their families, Wii video games with his wife and daughters or basketball with Robert Wolf, a banker and the rare new best friend Mr. Obama has acquired since entering politics…..
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