David Sirota, writing on the In These Times Web site on the Obama administration’s reform plans, compares the actual details of his vision to some of the major American visionaries of the past (the Founding Fathers, Edison, FDR):
All of these inventors envisaged machines, theories and societies that never before existed. And that’s why for all the positive, even admirable steps Obama’s America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too small, too unimaginative, too confined by old parameters and old conceptions of how things have always worked.
I like Obama, I voted for him and he is certainly 1,000 times better than the alternative, McCain/Doofus. But Obama is no FDR or LBJ. He should just forget bipartisanship and roll over the GOP just like the GOP steam rolled the Democrats during the Bush era.