She wanted to turn the page of the Bush years

The election of Barack Obama is a culmination dramatic and explosive path started in his address to the 2004 Democratic convention. At this time, Obama understood that divided America needed to re-consolidate, particularly at a time where the cultural divide between an America of right and a left America with all stereotypes involved, areas of residence in eating habits, were exacerbated by the Bush campaign which had been of morals (gay marriage)(, religion, weapon, abortion) a key to his message point policy.

Obama has been, since, to plead for the unit and the gathering, like a John McCain whose parliamentary career was an example of "bipartisanship", ability to agree with his political opponents and to cross the line of the parties. In 2004, Joe Biden had served between McCain and democratic candidate John Kerry to be its candidate. America in 2008 therefore voted for the policy change in Washington and that Americans from all walks of life are found in common an aspiration and a project. She wanted to turn the page of the Bush years. In truth, without the excesses of the latter, neither Obama nor McCain have won the investiture of their parties, which would be naturally turned to more conventional candidates, Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.

In 2009, the United States will therefore seek to find the path of the rational centre and the "bipartisanship", especially on national security issues. This spirit of Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton through Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan, ensured continuity in US policy, despite adjustments here and there, especially under Reagan.

In the certainty of their binary vision of the world, "W" and "terrible Mr Cheney" broke the vase inherited of the fathers of American power since the second world war. The period Bush has indeed broken with a tradition that brings together the Republican and democratic, Governments focusing on a reading of the ideological world and despising the dialogue and knowledge of foreign realities. It has also betrayed the legacy domestic excessively polarizing society.

Obama has seized all of this, as did also John McCain, but the Democrat better stated, both its own history is a quest for identity and serenity. Assuming the miscegenation, Obama says as American. In his footsteps, America has also desire to assume its political differences by sharing rather than in to the face, and be an example rather than a foil for the world.

It needs more of a return to a mode temperate policy that the challenges are considerable, particularly the revision of the social model with the restoration of the middle class and reform of sacrosanct institutions of old age, health and unemployment (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security).

The Obama America is a synthesis. That McCain has a habit of dialogue. Americans are rediscovering the virtues of the bipartisanship, abandoning the party spirit that marked the Bush Presidency. It is not surprising then that the names of Republican figures circulate to the Pentagon or the Department of State for the future administration Obama, as that of Senator Chuck Hagel, "obamacain", Republican seduced by Obama, or even Bob Gates himself, the current Secretary of Defense and former number two of the CIA under a Reagan, including Obama do denies foreign policy. Are often reminded that the icon itself, Franklin Roosevelt, had appointed to the defence the Republican Henry Stimson...

America will try to reinvent a progressivism which vying with Republicans and Democrats. But it does not reniera conservative values, these traditional values without being activists rooted in it, these values as Obama America and that McCain's share. Nor America is foregone, in foreign policy, to further its principles and to use force if the circumstances so require. Academe to Europeans.