I remember reading something by someone who was at the Harvard Review with him and she said he listened to everyone and then did what he wanted.
Of course it would be a harder to do that as president but I personally think his mind is made up...the only uncertain part is how much he can get away with.
That certainly is how he has operated so far, Aria. He famously did that with the stimulus bill, calling all of the Republicans in, listening to all of their ideas, and then rejecting the Republican ideas because “I won.”
It will be interesting to see how long the press will accept this as “bipartisanship.”
It’s his potential federal judiciary appointments that alarm me, and not just the Supreme Court, either. I have watched democrats appoint drunks and criminals plus agendized minorities, feminists, and gays to the bench for many years. They make crazy and pernicious rulings based on what they want the law to be, not on what it is (which is often bad enough). Now Obama’s got at least a four-year, and perhaps an eight-year, crack at the judicial pinata. Society will be much the worse for his appointments to the federal bench. I doubt that anyone really has a true feel for just how badly our laws and constitution are going to be perverted in service of marxist ideology. Get ready to pay.