Barack Obama has excellent taste

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, June 23, 2008 - 3:56 PM Share


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Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post quotes Barack Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, on his boss's reading habits:

The most extraordinary thing about him, maybe the most surprising, is how normal he is," says David Axelrod, his chief strategist. "He'll read Foreign Policy magazine, a treatise on economic policy and Sports Illustrated."

Now that's a reading list we can believe in.

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