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Don't relax, Obama still plans to transform the entire country
Betsy's Page — Charles Krauthammer explodes the growing myth that Barack Obama is planning to govern as a centrist. He warns us not to take comfort from the centrist, mainstream appoints for his foreign policy and economic team because that isn't where Obama's plans for transforming our country lie. A functioning financial system is a necessary condition for a successful Obama presidency. As in foreign policy, Obama wants experts and veterans to manage and pacify universes in which he has little experience and less personal commitment. Their job is to keep credit flowing and the world at bay ...

Charles Krauthammer on Obama's ambition
The Reality-Based Community — ... Krauthammer is probably wrong when he says that Barack Obama won't run a very active foreign policy. But I think he's got the rest of it just right: Obama is staffing up for a transformative Presidency. No more small-ball. Posted at ...

Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Charles Krauthammer - Obama's Plan for a Domestic Transformation: Obama has no intention of being a foreign policy president. Unlike, say, Nixon or Reagan, he does not have aspirations abroad... ...