The death of ideology

ILLUSTRATED: It's getting results stupid

Eighteen years ago when communism fell in Eastern Europe, people said that Karl Marx was proven wrong. Now with the current crisis people say that Adam Smith and Ronald Reagan are proven wrong. The reality is that hard headed ideology is wrong.
Bill Clinton turned the White House into a think tank and the economy and public balance sheets soared. George W. Bush turned the White House in to a right wing temple and the nation is in a nosedive.
Barack Obama and his team are here to govern. They cherish the government as a trust, and will use it to make sound public policy and sustain capitalism.
With the economy, initiative and enterprise will be fomented, but only up to the point of greed.
With domestic security, we will be kept safe, but within a legal framework.
Federal judges will be appointed who apply the Constitution to 2009, not 1789.
And our foreign policy will be based on strength through good relationships.

Ideologues prescribe how to go about getting results. The world is too complicated for a universal prescription. President Obama, like Clinton, will get results blending all kinds of ideas.