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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Barack Obama's Faltering Leadership

Steven Hill of The Guardian nails it. However, this is hardly a surprise. Even if he wasn't just a centrist most strongly committed to restoring business as usual, Barack Obama would have had trouble changing anything in a declining superpower that's horribly ill-equiped for change (psychologically, ideologically and physically).

Labels: Barack Obama, climate change, US decline, Wall Street