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Columnist Thomas Frank on Obama Disillusionment and the Wealth Gap

Obama delivering a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009

Thomas Frank, a cultural columnist for Salon, says that President Obama’s legacy might be more about what he didn’t do when he was in office.

 “People who defend the President, do so on the basis that the President is basically powerless,” Frank says.

In this River to River interview with host Ben Kieffer, Frank reflects on Obama’s presidency and looks forward to 2016. Frank will be speaking tonight at the University of Iowa’s Main Library at 7:00 p.m. Find more information about his lecture, “What’s the Matter with Liberals,” here

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Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.
Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River