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Okay, reading tea leaves, tossing the stones, picin' a rune and gazing into my navel, this is my stab at tinfoil hat prognosticating: Obama will make his bones by kicking most of the progressive/liberal gang that made him to the curb. Surrounded by Wall Street's "Best and Brightest" (thanks a lot, geniuses, what else you gonna' pull out of that hat Copperfield?) he's going to play the game by the rules they read to him. I'm not a political strategist nor do I play one on the teevee but it doesn't take a lot of smarts to see that the Blue State creature Obama sculpted in this election the one that looks like it's about to eat red meat Middle, land lotsa land, America just might get heartburn if in 2 years Obama isn't stuck with this hidden depression Bush and Obama's adviser's destructed. I can imagine Wall Streets warnings: "Unless you want just one term then you'll do as we tell you. Sure we'll give a little just to keep the illusion but if you step out of line we'll put Bloomberg up against you in '12 as an Independant and he'll eat the butt right out of your Blue State New England success." Obama sadly will go along because he can't imagine a Sarah Palin Presidency. We (progressive left) will be lucky to get 1/2 of what we hope for.
