The danger for him is that we've always understood there's an arc of instability and crisis in the world that stretched essentially from Israel, Lebanon, to the Mediterranean, over in to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Gergen outlines the geopolitical challenges Obama will face as president, particularly regarding instability in South Asia.
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He is a leader there's no question about that. But I think he's a bad leader. I think he's leaving his people into, he's leading the country, especially into a very bad place.
Maintaining the status quo with regard to the filibuster is unacceptable for him.
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