Today a permanent Washington class — members of Congress, lobbyists, journalists, bureaucrats — exercise  a pervasive degree of concentrated power that would terrify the Founders(federalists and anti-federalists alike).  According to Carl Bernstein, this stultifying fact is perhaps President Obama’s greatest challenge and obstacle to national progress.
 
Carl Bernstein shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for his coverage of Watergate for The Washington Post. His most recent book is the acclaimed biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President’s Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness John Paul II and the History of Our Time. 

Bernstein’s appearance at The Common Good is a continuation of TCG’s Democracy&Politics Series which has included: Paul Begala, Robert Shrum, Tucker Carlson, Markos Molitsos, Joel Benenson, Kelly Ann Conway, and many more.