Robert Kuttner: What Obama Faces
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Channel: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs · 2008 · News & Politics
"So I think this is the situation that Obama faces. Things that were deemed inconceivable six months ago will be barely adequate six months from now," says Kuttner. He continues, "Lest we forget, for every president who seized a crisis and turned it into an opportunity and became transformative, there's a president who came to power in the face of a crisis and failed—Hoover, Carter, Bush." This Carnegie Council event took place on November 12, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to http://www.cceia.org
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