I am troubled by Ron Suskind’s description of the Obama White House during the economic crisis of 2009:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/tim-geithner-ignored-obama-order_n_965404.html
He paints a not-so-pretty picture of the White House discussion. We were confronting an economic disaster, and getting elected president does not make one expert in everything Americans care about. Every president has to rely on the advice of experts.