We have the next four years to find out.

martini-henry, you are as out of touch as the rifle you named yourself after is obsolete.

Obama has already signaled the wholesale adoption of Al Gore’s global warming scam and he has promised sympathetic judges whose main criteria is understanding what it’s like to be poor, unwed, etc.

In appointing Rham(bo) and Daschle he tapped two of the most partisan Democrats ever while praising them as men who could work with the opposition. Sure…

Unfortunately, Bush started the big government avalanche giving Obama the perfect cover to go even further with government overwhelming the private sector.

Obama will likely pay back all of his radical friends for years to come while posing as a moderate guy. In fact, in a somewhat center right country, this subterfuge is the only way he can succeed with his liberal agenda. To win reelection, he has to promote his goals incrementally. Then over a period of eight years–surprise!, the country will have moved radically to the left.

The press, determined to see their candidate be successful, will cover for him. The liberal press has fallen all over themselves to say that Obama is innocent of ANY wrongdoing in the Chicago Governor’s scandal. Oh yeah? He endorsed Blagojevich twice, even while the Gov. was under investigation.

Obama cut his teeth on Chicago corruption and even if he wasn’t actively corrupt, he never spoke out against any of the Chicago corruption and benefitted from it. Obama’s deals with convicted felon and Obama money man Rezko seem pretty corrupt except to the press.

So while I hope for the best, I fear the worst. Higher taxes, cap and trade on carbon emissions, increased energy costs, massive amounts of guilt money to the UN for our supposed “sins” as a greedy country, more interference into our personal life choices from light bulbs to plastic bags-the list is endless. No, I fear the cabinet appointments are just for show, a means to achieve a greater end.

Martini-Henry, THANK YOU for commenting on rosieposie’s atrocious spelling, idiotic diatribe. I believe I’d lost a few brain cells attempting to fathom her piece.

I love how pro-Obama folks comment to know the guy is to, ‘Read his books’.

I tell you what, show me a man who’d written themselves in a negative light in an AUTObiography and I’ll sell you some real estate on the moon!

As for his other book, look at the timeline of hs OWN life. There are dozens of errors, lies, call it what you will.

Check out Jerome Corsi’s, ‘Obama Nation’ to ‘get to know Obama’ or Robert Fredosso’s, ‘The Case Against Barack Obama:..The Cult of Personality’ where he goes into detail of Obama’s shady friends, criminal campaign backers and despicable fellow colleagues.

As the ad from the 80′s commercial surmises, ‘Read the Book’.. indeed.

Obama is giving every indication that he is still a progressive, pragmatic or not. He is still talking about universal (i.e. socialized) health care, support for cap and trade (i.e. radical economic controls in the name of an always weak and now fading scientific hypothesis), a huge stimulus package (i.e. still more interference in the economy and waste of taxpayer money), along with public works programs, etc., etc.

A few allegedly centrist appointments mean very little. (Hillary Clinton is also a leftist/statist. Paul Volcker does not advocate capitalism. etc. etc)

What would the man have to do to convince conservatives that he is what he says he is, announce that he’ll nationalize the oil companies Jan 21, 2009? He hardly needs to do that to continue to push for an end to the “ideology that has failed,” (in his view).

There’s nothing under the radar about his stances or preferred outcomes. How much he’ll actually get done is, of course, always an open question until after the fact.