CH...CH...CH...CH...CH...CLINTON?:

Obama gets the Clinton band back together (BEN SMITH & CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, 11/14/08, Politico)

Here's how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama's aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington, D.C.—and Clintonites are everywhere.

Obama's victory in the general election produced what his primary campaign couldn't: A swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party with the Illinois Senator's self-styled insurgency. The merger began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus—which is now rapidly becoming the governing apparatus.

What if Barack Obama really is just about "making it," not remaking anything?

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