Policy tinkering, which clears the way for entrepreneurs to do better, without entirely changing the ground beneath them, mightbe more successful, he argues.
He said GM developers might think they would besuccessful by having "one form of clever genetic engineering after another", but he believed "that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time".
And if he is successful in achieving these personal and organizational goals, the Billy Goat Curse might finally be slayed once and for all in the Windy City.
But if Obama embraces the soft presidential power strategy that was employed by FDR, Reagan and other successful presidents, he will find himself in a much stronger position than Bush and might very well be able to rescue this nation and build the long-term majority that so many Democrats are hoping for and so many Republicans lament having failed to achieve.