Jan 282010
The thing about State of the Union speeches is that they usually end up sounding like wonky wish lists. Eighty to ninety percent of that wish list will never come to anything and presidents can consider themselves lucky if that other ten percent survives in any recognizable form. And I think Obama knows that. He’ll be lucky to finish the year getting a financial reform package and, if the stars align just right and the Democrats manage to keep it together, a health care bill. Even that’s an optimistic view.
I’d like to live the world envisioned in Obama’s speech, but I’m guessing we’ll end up muddling through much of 2010.
