January 18, 2009
A PRESIDENT McCAIN WOULD, LIKEWISE...:
Transition Signals A Centrist Approach In Obama White House: Weeks Since Election Saw Minimal 'Drama' (Anne E. Kornblut, 1/18/09, Washington Post)
Just as Bill Clinton's chaotic preparations for taking office foreshadowed an occasional lack of discipline in the White House, and as George W. Bush's -- begun before the Florida recount ended -- laid the groundwork for a pattern of Oval Office decisiveness, Obama has strongly signaled an administration that will be more centrist than his campaign but that will have a hard time duplicating one of the campaign's cardinal tenets: "no drama."
...have filled a blandly moderate niche somewhere between Clinton and Bush.
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