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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I miss having a president who reads books.[/quote]

+1.

Obama’s annual best of lists are always great— I also love his music list. I’m sure he gets help but wow they’re good in highlighting both low and high brow, mass appeal and niche, etc. [/quote]

yeah, it does achieve that, which kind of also undermines the list entirely. [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Because it appears to be entirely "curated" in order to garner approval from naive people, such as yourself.[/quote]

So? Every “best of” list is curated. [/quote]

Yes, and when the NYtimes does it, say the "best of 2025" list, you know it's based on books they have reviewed that year. Not one person, but a group of journalists and they vote on it. When Obama produces a list, it appears to be chosen by him personally, but it is not, it's just a PR exercise dressed up to make him look good. He may have read the books, but some PR person has handed them to him, for the purposes of building this list.

If you want to engage with fakery and treat it as real, knock yourself out.[/quote]

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