Nice, for once, real assessment, in the last sentence of the paragraph below, of why Mr. Obama was elected and likely will be for a 2nd term. The "hopey changey" thing was and, as evident just a few days ago in Tucson, still is verbal fodder for what, I think, Shakespeare referred to as the people in the pit. In other words, rhetoric need to keep the attention the low class rabble or, to update that concept, the outside the beltway mobs.
Regardless of BRICS and other emerging economies, President Obama’s principal foreign policy objective since assuming office has been to reassert American global leadership after the Bush Administration’s neoconservative imperialist wars and unilateralism weakened Washington’s alliances and compromised its hegemony. This is what Obama was elected to do — not, by rank-and-file Democrats cocooned in “change we can believe in,” but by the representatives of great wealth, great corporations and great financial power