Don't Blindly Follow JFK, FDR
The election season is over and President Obama by now must have realized that the actual job is going to be much different from the campaign process and the stump speech tours. He will enter office in a very difficult and entangled set of circumstances on the domestic and international economic front. He is faced with the United States's tattered reputation on both political and military fronts abroad. There's also NATO festering in Bosnia, Ukraine's gas transit convulsions, the Middle East, India or South America. Simply, America's standing in the world is dilapidated and brittle.

