Obama’s Vision Thing
Barack Obama’s problem lies not in his vision for America and the world, but in his deficient efforts to move from theory to practice. That makes America's newly divided government doubly problematic, because there is no better alternative to Obama’s vision in view.
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MADRID – Humbled by the Republicans’ landslide mid-term election victory, US President Barack Obama will now need to negotiate every minor detail of his domestic agenda with a confrontational Congress – at least until the next elections in 2012. Congress can obstruct Obama’s foreign policy as well, but this remains a domain where any US president “enjoys almost royal prerogatives,” to use Alexis de Tocqueville’s somewhat inflated description.