Ambitious pledges
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was elected, in part, as the antidote to ambition. He appealed to a nation weary of large national exertions — a nation longing for a normalcy beyond the wars, hurricanes, floods and assorted plagues of the Bush years.
Yet headed toward the inauguration, the scale of Obama’s ambition is becoming evident.
I am not referring to his stimulus plan, which tends toward th...
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