Jonathan Alter, BloombergPresidential inaugurations are traditionally occasions for stroking one's chin and offering sober assessments of what the president and the nation can accomplish in the next four years. This is bound to be an exercise in futility. Four years ago, as Barack Obama took the oath, no one had heard of the Tea Party, Obamacare, the Deepwater Horizon, Abbottabad, the Arab Spring, Sheldon Adelson or the 47 percent. "Sandy" referred to beaches or a legendary pitcher for the Dodgers, not a devastating hurricane or a shooting at an elementary ... Read More