Obama promised a great many things during the primaries and into the general election. Among them: stopping global warming, closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq, beefing up forces in Afghanistan, going after bin-Laden more forcefully and about a million other things.
So far he's hedged on closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq and going after bin-Laden. In other words, his words were merely words that he used as a tool to get elected.
Today we see the continuing of a recent trend whereby the media is lowering expectations so that they can say he attained more later. Unbelievably, MSNBC is also noting that the world is becoming a bit disenchanted with The One as well:
"The idealism has diminished," said Samuel Solvit, who heads an Obama support network in France. "Everyone was dreaming a little. Now people are more realistic."Welcome to the world stage and reality BHO, the crazies in the world have been waiting for you. Obama promised everything to everyone while campaigning and now will have to break his word to a great many of them.
Muslims want to know why Obama hasn't joined the chorus of international criticism of Israel's Gaza offensive. Last week posters of him were set on fire in Tehran to shouts of "Death to Obama!"
"By the time Obama takes office, hundreds or thousands more will be killed in Gaza and it will be too late for him to act," said Adel Fawzi, an Egyptian government clerk in Cairo.
Starting with the world's Muslims who feel that since his father was Muslim and he grew up for a time in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, he has Muslim in his blood. They may grow to hate him more than Bush simply because he will be viewed as an apostate who shunned people of the same faith as his own dad.
Tomorrow afternoon, Barack Obama will become President Obama and his words will have great meaning. He will not be able to hedge as he has been about Israel/Gaza, economic issues and the myriad other things he's not commented on. Tomorrow, everything will be real and the answers will be needed pronto and with clarity. As an American citizen, I sure hope he's up to it.
The commenter's are split on this one and it's a pretty good argument going on over there.
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It seems so well-crafted, so orchestrated by the liberal media -- "BUILD HIM UP AS THE SAVIOR, okay, let's back it down, be a little subtle now, we got Him elected, so if He doesn't get His promises accomplished anytime soon, we won't be disappointed in Him and when He finally does, He'll be King (even more than He is now!) Any downfalls along the way we'll just blame on Bush and the left wing crowd will back us up, they'll understand, and they'll keep on tearing down the Republicans even though nothing's their fault anymore while patting The Savior on the back saying, 'It's not your fault.' Yes, yes, Yes We Can, we can do it, we're geniuses."
Unfortunately, while some of his bigger promises might be difficult/unrealistic to accomplish, a lot of smaller things will slowly get undone, all adding up to one damn hell of a mess for America when all is said and done for this administration. I didn't worry none with Bush in office. Now I've gotta wake up and take each and every single day as it comes? Yeah, that's gonna make for a lovely time the next four LONG years.
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