Nothing new about Obama

While Obama claims to be the "candidate of change", who does not adhere to "rigid ideology", and can "bring the country together", Kimberly Strassel points out that the candidate's vision for America is to the left of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's agenda that has been held up in Congress by centrist members of her own party. Obama has let it slip that he believes he could carry his party to a sweeping congressional victory that would provide a "mandate for change" referencing the Dems' current inability to advance their agenda with their thin majorities.

Strassel summarizes, "That doesn't sound like a man who wants to work with Republicans toward a bipartisan era. It sounds like a man who wants to crush his opponents at the polls, and then bulldoze his agenda through an enfeebled opposition. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with that; it's what politicians have been trying to do for decades. But it's certainly nothing new."

Four of the last five Iowa polls show Hillary has pushed back in front of him by a thin margin. In a dangerous world, E.J. Dionne wonders if Democratic Iowa caucus goers may be inclined to revaluate sensibility and style.