The Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, Darrell West, says Mr. Obama needs to lower expectations about how much can be accomplished in the days and weeks after he is sworn in.

布鲁金斯学会的管理研究所主任达雷尔·韦斯特说，奥巴马需要降低人们对于他宣誓就职之后的几天与几个星期之内所能实现成就的期望。

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Darrell West is with the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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"Republicans are being more strategic in how they're approaching the budget, " said Darrell West, the vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution.

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To Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, the video evokes memories of the Swift Boat campaign that mounted a barrage of negative attacks against Kerry's war record.

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"It won't be a real campaign without late-night jokes, " says Darrell West, a Brown University professor and author of Air Wars, a study of television's effect on politics.

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