Vista da qui, la lettura di molti commentatori americani sulla fase di stallo di Obama evoca la sindrome Veltroni: ecco Fareed Zakaria su Newsweek.

My own advice would be simple: Barack Obama needs to act like a president, especially the president he campaigned to become.

He may or may not get much support from Republicans, but he will earn political capital and power, which in the long run is the only way to enact a big, transforming agenda. This approach is exactly what Obama campaigned on. He promised that he would reach out to all sections of the country, listen to the best ideas, and appeal to the nation as a whole