I think Obama is as progressive as you can get into the job. THe system (and the country) has too much inertia to have a white-knight solution, carving the Gordian knot into smithereens with one heroic election. That's a fine dream but there are too many vectors and too much inertial drag to change things that way. The closest we have to a viable Trojan Horse is Barack Obama, and any vote in support of that is a bet on the improvement of the future -- even if it is not as fast an improvement as you would want to have in your dreams.   In a world where millioons have to synchronize their dreams into action, or stagnate with the Republican alternative, the options are few and the path out is obvious.


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