Will he attempt to remake the world?
It is always a pleasure to read Goerge Will’s column:
The world is a fact, and facts are indeed stubborn things. After eight years, if such there are, of an Obama presidency, if such there is, the world will look much as it does today — if we are lucky.
Swift and sweeping changes are almost always calamitous consequences of calamities — often of wars, sometimes of people determined to “remake the world.” Wise voters - polls might be telling us that there are more of them than Obama imagines - hanker for candidates whose principal promise is that they will do their best to muddle through without breaking too much crockery.
I do, however, suspect - or rather hope - that Obama is much more of the middle way politician than his campaign rhetoric revel. As far as I could see the difference between his rhetoric and past actions and speeches making me hope that, at least when it comes to foreign policy, much more a combination of ideology and cold realism than his rival, McCain.
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