>>Prediction - by the end of the 1st term, BHO will be pretty much a clone of GWB.
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>I think you're quite wrong. Today's directive on ethics gives the first indication that this administration will be different. People who leave the administration will not be permitted to lobby it.
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>I also think we heard some big clues in the speech. Science will matter, as will evidence in general. Sounds like decisions will be made based on what's really happening, not what someone wishes were happening.
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>Will there be mistakes? I'm sure there will. But I think your assertion that Obama will grow into Bush is exceedingly unlikely.
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I saw online today that Obama has already made one break with Bush: working in the Oval Office in shirt sleeves. Bush had an iron clad rule that anyone in the Oval Office had to wear a jacket.
Clinton, of course, had his own set of rules about OO attire ;-)
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