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Originally Posted by Tinordi
You should watch the series The Wire to get an understanding institutional power. No one person changes anything.
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People who argue that Obama is just more of the same clearly don't understand how the American system really works. He is one guy with fairly limited ability to make law when you have such a broken set of houses. Perhaps if he was PM in a majority parliamentary gov't, he would be able to make whatever great changes (real healthcare reform, etc) he actually wants, but as it stands he can simply sit by the wayside as both stubborn parties do nothing in congress.
The man has attempted some pretty serious reforms, but has always been shot down, he would need to win both houses in 2012 in order to have any sort of shot of making real changes.