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We can expect Obama to make more appointments that please the left, but the general tenor of his cabinet will be Democratic centrist. The irony is that
Bill Clinton, once dismissed as a popular president who lacked any core principles and who would not have much of a lasting effect, is now looking like a president who will cast a long shadow over the Democratic Party.
This should not be taken to mean an Obama administration will just be "Bush lite." The past eight years of rightward-leaning Republican administration have shown stark differences with the Democratic centrists of the 1990s.
Obama might very well break with his past by using this centrist team to promote left-of-center policies,
but odds are he will continue building his program around the legacy of his centrist predecessor, Bill Clinton, who is
probably smiling just a little more as he watches this new White House take shape."