| At least, if Obama gets in, he has Congress and the Senate mostly on his side- which was not the case with the Clinton administration.
He's gonna need it- some of his reforms are going to piss off powerful vested interests, and their well funded lobby groups. On top of that, he inherits from the Bush administration a nation in record levels of debt, enmeshed in two expensive wars, and probably on the brink of recession.
I hope he at least takes a leaf out of Clintons book and maintains fiscal discipline. He'll ride in on a wave of optimism and 'change', but soon enough the reality will set in that these 'changes' can not happen overnight. The GOP, of course, will prey on the resultant disgruntlement in some sectors.
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