Not to sound like Peggy Noonan-- because I think that Obama is an Affirmative Action Embarrassment and closet Marxist--but I think that the Obama Presidency might not be as bad as many Freepers fear. And this article lays out one possible reason why.
Furthermore, Fate has a way of confounding the conventional wisdom. Did anyone eight years ago forsee 9/11 and the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan? Dubya was not looking for overseas wars-- but he got them. So I can only wonder what surprises will derail the Demo-commie agenda...
LBJ was planning to reshape the United States into a Europe style Socialist state, and the Dems had nearly 2/3rds control of Congress to back him up on it... then he got a little sidetracked in a place called Vietnam. Obama has been apparently aching for a fight with Pakistan...