HOPE THIS WORKS OUT BETTER FOR HIM THAN IT DID FOR GEORGE W. BUSH: Obama wants Social Security Reform. “Pointing with concern to ‘red ink as far as the eye can see,’ President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending and named a special watchdog to clamp down on other federal programs — even as he campaigned anew to spend the largest pile of taxpayer money in history to revive the sinking economy.”