Obama: A Domestic LBJ?

Dean Cheng / March 24, 2010

A President presides over an unpopular war, while pursuing domestic goals that are the centerpiece of his actual interest. He is forced to choose between focusing his attention on developments overseas, and pushing through major domestic programs that will dramatically expand the purview of government. Which does he choose?

Barack Obama in 2010? Or Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965? (more…)