Achieving the Impossible: Expectations for an Obama Presidency

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Achieving the Impossible: Expectations for an Obama Presidency

Lincoln Mitchell: We have no way of really knowing what issues will dominate Obama's presidency, just as few would have predicted that George W. Bush's presidency would have been largely defined by a Global War on Terror, that Bill Clinton's presidency would have been primarily driven by foreign policy or that George H. W. Bush would owe his defeat to an economic downturn. Achieving all of his goals will be almost impossible. Achieving even one or two of them would be an extraordinary accomplishment. Click here to read more.