Submitted by Ryan Smithers, Feb 29, 2008 06:21

Typically presidential candidates' money promises to the electorate founder on the rock of reality. Probably this will happen whether Obama, Clinton, or McCain is elected president. In the event, Leon Panetta's alarum is more important as a warning of what the consequences would be if Obama, Clinton, or McCain, as president, succeeds in having his/her money promises enacted than in predicting the money promises will be enacted..

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