Has Barack Obama already broken his first promise to voters in his choice of cabinet and White House staff? As a candidate, Obama spent 17 months promising a new vision of politics; a politics not divided along partisan lines, that would break with the old Washington ways where access to decision-makers was corrupted by donations, lobbyists and a culture of insiders.
He promised change, galvanising many younger voters, who believed America could become a fairer country, and end its involvement in Iraq. But so far he has turned mainly to people with reputations as practitioners of tough, pragmatic politics, and long Washington histories.
Obama's trouble is that it is the landscape into which he will step on January 20 which has changed. Over the past six months, America has gone from prosperous-if-troubled to an economy on the brink, and a nimble, smoothly functioning administration must take priority over experiments in open governance.
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