Can Barack Obama pull a Bill Clinton?

Politico ^ | 11/4/10 | John F. Harris

[Signalman]

Committed Marxists cannot moderate their views.

[celtic gal]

Nope.

[AaronInCarolina]

Can Barack Obama pull a Clinton?

I doubt it. Clinton only pulled it off because he didn't really have any core beliefs beyond the desire to be adored. That led him to take whatever position increased his popularity. Obama has more core priciples (misguided, but nonetheless principled). He is more idealogically driven. Clinton was flexible enough to go with the flow. Obama is so arrogant that he will forever believe he can make flow go with him.

[Irenic]

No, Obama isn’t as smart as Clinton and Obama’s ego is much too massive.

[Billthedrill]

0bama doesn't have the tools. BJ Billy had been a Governor and had a staff of professionals who we will likely see again promoting She Who Must Not Be Named. OK, that's not much of a prediction; they're already at it.

Fundamentally it boils down to one thing: 0bama must come to project that the country that has chosen to elevate him to its highest office is a great one and that it is his duty to look out for its interests. The pose he has assumed that got him where he is, is that he's ashamed of the country and that it is his duty to change it into something more acceptable to other people who are ashamed of the country.

He's not going to make it. It isn't in him.