Commentary on Playing by Clinton Rules by David Brooks

David, I am a democrat who also appreciates republican writings. The question which comes to my thought is not whether Mr. Obama to follow Clinton rule or follow his own but whether the nation is ready for the new rules. And the answer depends.... where on the evolutionary scale the nation and it's inhabitants are, and the election results will determine whether Clinton, Bush, McCain's politics is of the past. The nation has seen the politics of the past, and some of its good, bad, and indifference results. Now the nation has an opportunity to see whether the nation is set in a mind set of the past and unable to change, or ready to break out and create a new world view. Election results will provide a snap shot of nation's current thinking , feeling, and its ability or inability to reinvent itself for the better.