Obama Keeps His Centrist Course

Barack Obama's aides like to tell the story about his reaction to the monotonous, self-important speeches at his first session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2005. After hearing his colleagues drone on, Obama passed to a staff member a note that read: "SHOOT. ME. NOW."

The impatient freshman senator is now about to become president, but he hasn't lost his distaste for Washington politics-as-usual. And as the inauguration approaches, ... Full Story »