Does anyone think Obama's PDB is more than one page?

[underpants]

Ron Suskind, George W. Bush and the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/06/20/911pdb/
We've known for years now that George W. Bush received a presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, in which he was warned: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." We've known for almost as long that Bush went fishing afterward.

What we didn't know is what happened in between the briefing and the fishing, and now Suskind is here to tell us. Bush listened to the briefing, Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1384636
I had a conversation with a former CIA employee last year, and we got to talking about PDB's. He's been privy to them for about a decade, and he was laughing about how PDB's have changed since the Clinton era. While Clinton was president, he said, the PDB's were voluminous and thorough, with a lot of background information -- very dense reading, because Clinton liked to know everything about a subject.

But after Bush took office, he said, the PDB's got dumbed down. "They're now like PEOPLE Magazine, everything summarized down to the barest minimum, because Bush doesn't like to read. Or CAN'T read." He was laughing about it, and said "you can draw your own conclusions about Bush's I.Q." They even talked about issuing it in comic-book form so Bush could absorb it.

[Captain Hilts]

1. I've known two people that wrote the PDB and they are inherently not long pieces. There is an oral

briefing daily in addition to this.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. "They even talked about issuing it in comic-book form so Bush could absorb it."

And later on his staff needed to make a DVD of the Katrina situation so he could absorb THAT.
You can't fix stupid.

[LynneSin]

3. I do suspect that Obama himself personally reads the thing

but that's just my 2 cents.