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Obama was chosen to divert the public's overwhelming desire for change into a direction that would not threaten the establishment.

Things certainly went that way quickly enough. Those first Cabinet selections should have clued in even the most faithful, but the signs were there earlier: the tributes to Reagan, the talk of the need to give corporations a place at the table, the sucking up on fundamentalist bigots, etc.