A funny thing happened on his way to the White House: that old, left-wing, community organizer, Barack Obama, has suddenly veered toward the center, and his incoming administration is looking more and more like the Daley Machine in Chicago than Hugo Chavez's administration down in Venezuela.
It seems that reality has set in, instructing the soon-to-be president-elect (he won't be that until the presidential electors gather and vote for him next month) that it's easier to promise change than it is to change the way things are traditionally done in a democracy.
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