LEJ and Rapaire are both raising excellent points here worthy of sober reflection.

I expect Obama to be politically pragmatic because he can't do what he wants to do without it. At the same time, I am not sure what the real bottom summum bonum in his calculation is, although I have been persuaded from the outset that it is highly rational and positive, just tempered with realism about how to do what is possible.

But this bears continued watching, because selling the country to a different set of vested interests is not the same as the kind of change he has promised, I believe.


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