The US President: tightrope walker.

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Quotation by Van Jones:

... I have come to see any American president as a person on a tightrope: on any issue, he can lean only so far to the left or right before the political laws of gravity begin to punish him. The genius of the Tea Party is that it didn't try to move the tightrope walker, it moved the tightrope itself, successfully pulling the national conversation and the entire political establishment far to the right." -- Van Jones

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1968 -

Former Special Advisor to the Obama White House and advocate for Green jobs.

Country: United States

Type: Prose
Context: Book
Source: Rebuild the Dream
Uttered: 2012

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Richmond Shreve is a retired business executive whose careers began in electronics (USN) and broadcasting in the 1960s. Over the years he has maintained a hobby interest in amateur radio, and the audio-visual arts while working in sales and (more...)