Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Tuesday: "In your memo...you wrote on page 1 that a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction, is that right?" This dialogue hardly seemed decisive at the time because Barr's professed view reflects mainstream legal thinking, which makes the actions described in the BuzzFeed story all the more striking, Sklansky said.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, not everyone at the Bank of England shares Mark Carney's professed view that bubbling property is the gravest threat to financial stability and the sustainability of the recovery.
This tends to be true regardless of the ethnicity of the person doing the associating, or that person's professed views on race.
Beyond that, however, what's remarkable is the extent to which this president consistently chooses economists whose ideology is at odds with his own professed views on policy.
Early in the Senate race, they write, Mr. Romney "established himself as a passionate supporter of abortion rights," despite his personal opposition to abortion, and "his professed views would grow more liberal over the course of the race".
Initially, Snowden expressed a desire to find shelter in Iceland, which has strong whistleblower protections and a libertarian penchant that would seem to align neatly with his own professed views.
Those who would characterize your average lefty as a limousine liberal or blinkered Pollyanna can now add this: According to a new British study of thousands of people in 82 countries, those who identify themselves as left wing are actually a lot more conservative when measured by their professed views on substantive issues.
In an interview with "The Daily Show" on Monday, Obama suggested that there were "very clear relationships between members of the president-elect's campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues".
But Penn has long struggled to translate his professed liberal views, and his virtuous causes, into a respectful attitude toward women and people of color generally.
In fact, many experts say Beijing is simply reinforcing a growing perception in diplomatic circles that it is willing to throw its weight around in ways that undermine its professed desire to be viewed as a new kind of peaceful, harmonious rising power.
I've come to think two things: 1) his is the greatest failure in view of his professed aims and 2) he's the single most important cultural force and finest poet of the twentieth century (in languages I know)," Beadle Administration, Records, ibid.
