Summary
The beltway poison began almost before the dancing stopped early Wednesday morning. Obama has to be ''cautious." This is still a "center-right nation," wrote Bill Kristol. "The country remains very evenly divided," says Clinton advisor Harold Ickes. Obama better lower his sights, ignore the "liberal" Congress and liberal lobbies, and govern from the center.
The best response to that came from the Obama camp itself. Newly appointed Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel told "Face the Nation:" "Rule one: Never allow a crisis tq go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things. John Podesta, co-chair of the transition team, reported about Obama: "He feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."Exactly right. Obama won a majority of the vote-the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to accomplish that-after a campaign that was focused on a debate about direction. Americans were given a choice between what Obama called the "failed philosophy" of the Reagan era, advocated by Bush and McCain (top end tax cuts, corporate trade deals, trickle down economics, deregulation) and the "redistributionist socialism" that McCain accused Obama of (progressive tax reform, public investment in new energy, affordable health care for all etc). Americans made their choice clear.Americans were given a choice between what Obama called the "failed philosophy" of the Reagan era, advocated by Bush and McCain (top end tax cuts, corporate trade deals, trickle down economics, deregulation) and the "redistributionist socialism" that McCain accused Obama of (progressive tax reform, public investment in new energy, affordable health care for all etc). Tn an election eve poll done by the Campaign for America's Future with Democracy Corps, voters were asked if they wanted Republicans to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and help pass his program, or if they should oppose the program since it was headed in the wrong direction.See the full content of this document
Extract
Obama to Make No Small Plans
The beltway poison began almost before the dancing stopped early Wednesday morning. Obama has to be ''cautious." This is still a "center-right nation," wrote Bill Kristol. "The country remains very evenly divided," says...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
