The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House

Unimaginative; poorly written by a hack who calls himself a news journalist. This piece of trash doesn't deserve the light of day. It might be useful as toilet paper in the outhouse of some right wing nut job.

This book is complete garbage from a Right Wing Mouthpiece that is clearly blaming OBAMA for not getting the RW GOP to like him? Even though they 100% obstructed & turned every invite given to them down. The RW GOP won't even be seen with OBAMA, Boehner had to have secret meetings so as not to upset his RW OBSTRUCTIONIST caucus. Very sick man, RW GOP has NO desire to do anything w/OBAMA & Chuck Todd OVERLOOK'S this intentionally, the GOP HATES THIS MAN! Yet, Todd blames him like he would a victim. NBC needs to do a psycho analysis on him like they did on Gregory. Todd is clearly uneducated, a very sick man & has an axe to grind w/OBAMA personally. He 100% DISCOUNTS & DISREGARDS the fact the RW GOP planned to OBSTRUCT & NOT WORK w/OBAMA before HE WAS INAUGURATED! To overlook this, is to be a very blind and a SICK PERSON. Dollar Store or garbage can is too good for this TRASH, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! Buy something useful!

Somewhat of a whitewash of the least competent president in at least 100 years, but not the typical adoration of Obama common from the "mainstream" media. Chuck Todd does a super job on "Meet the Press" & obviously relishes politics.

Loved the book. Like the other twelve libtards who haven't read it, I'll write my review solely on my own personal biases. First of all, I wouldn't be so quick to label Chuck Todd a Republican. There is more than enough proof that much of the liberal media have soured on old Barry. Hell, even Barack Hussein Obama's own party wouldn't have anything to do with him, begging him not to campaign for them. This morning on MSNBC, Obama's 'Pravda' and personal cheering section, said this morning that Obama is a stranger even to his own party. They cited Democratic congressmen who call them up to ask what's going on at the White House because the "Anointed One" is far too arrogant to deign to associate with anyone in Congress. "The Stranger" is all about a President who has serious mental problems, the likes of which we haven't seen since Tricky Dick Nixon occupied the White House.

This the worst piece of garbage I have read...The title alone makes me want to puke...
Wonder why this country it so divided when they give a microphone to someone that has no idea what this President has done for this country...No wonder Meet the Press is failing miserably...Many have benefited in trashing this President.
This book exemplifies..all the wrongs is America...Chuck Todd should go back in punching numbers on a screen.
One Star is far too many..Wish they Zero beside it!

I can't imagine buying something that looks like a 'blame the victim' game. The President has been under the onslaught of the Washington establishment since before he took office - a giant target on his back that is also, not coincidentally, drooled on by the most threats of assassination to any US President in history. How can he be 'out there' playing the game when he is trying to stay alive, literally and figuratively?

The Obama presidency is an enigma. Even after a decade on the national scene, there's a lot we don't know about what makes him tick. I thought The Stranger answered a lot of those questions: How Obama's upbringing shaped his personality - sometimes standoffish, sometimes accommodating. How the scars of being a political outsider made him keep his distance from the establishment, even when embracing the establishment would have helped his own cause. How his professional background left him so prepared to run for president, but so unprepared for the massive bureaucracy that awaited him in Washington.

What I enjoyed most was how much this book pulls back the curtain on the industry of Washington, D.C. It's a complicated city, with many competing interests, far beyond just Democrats and Republicans. The Stranger takes you inside the Pentagon, inside Congress, inside the White House to show you how it all works, something which a lot of books don't do with the breadth and scope this one achieves. Todd has written a book for the politically astute, and it's well worth your time to get to know both the president he chronicles and the city he inhabits.