Dick Cheney smears President Obama on 9/11...

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52. Yes. Obama reads the national security reports.

That is a much better way to obtain information that may at times be displeasing.

Employees, people who rely on "the boss" for approval and their jobs may be very reluctant to bring bad news in person, but will write it in a report.

Bush liked person-to-person briefings because he could hear what he wanted to hear and make the person telling him bad news feel like a traitor for delivering it. Bush was a shoot the messenger kind of manipulator.

Obama is simply less of a manipulator in that way. He is more interested in finding out the truth even if unpleasant. I would say most Democrats are that way. That may explain why Republicans perceive us as not being religious. They always want to hear the positive stuff. We are more likely to want to hear the truth and let the chips fall where they may, pleasant or not.

Cheney is not intelligent enough to be able to figure this out or even understand it.

People who read more tend to know more than people who just watch movies or go to meetings to get information. That is my opinion.