Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterNewsweek: Why Obama needs to lower expectations
Published 1/2/2009 at msnbc.com: Politics
Obama and his aides are determined to send a jolt of electricity through D.C., but the realities get more immobilizing by the minute. Globally, the drift of events is not necessarily in the president-election's direction.
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