US Presidential elections: Victory may prove to be the easy part - by Martin Ivens
The inexperienced Obama is a blank page on which half the country has written its hopes. Like new Labour in 1997 he preaches consensus healing. His campaign has succeeded through cautious restraint, his mantra of change allowing him maximum room for manoeuvre. The talk is a Republican titan will head defence or the State Department.
Obama’s ability to “redeem” or heal America has been widely overhyped by the liberal media. Like Tony Blair, will inexperience mean he is similarly slow to learn to use the levers of power? Abroad, he has already been greeted as a hero though he will soon be tested. The weight of expectations is almost too great.
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