Maria Bartiromo?s latest Business Week feature starts with:
Even Barack Obama’s critics and skeptics would concede that in this moment of global distress, the installation of the young senator from Illinois as America’s first African American President is a moment of hope.
On the contrary, ?hope? is not the word this skeptic would apply to his assessment of the likely impact of an administration even more inclined to favor big-government. illiberal, collectivist policies than the outgoing crowd.
It?s a moment of foreboding. The one ray of hope is that our new president is enough of a politician to ignore the crazier ideas put forward by his most rabid supporters.
