Nov 06 2008
Talk is cheap. Now comes the real test.
Few presidents, if any, have ever taken office in our history, facing higher citizen expectations than will Barack Obama. An anxious nation took a chance on this brash, but unproven upstart. Voters obviously liked his message of hope, though they never required him to define it. They accepted his pledge for change, never really knowing what it meant, or how he might accomplish it.
Desiring anything but what had gone before, voters this week elected Barack Obama untested and with perhaps the thinnest of presidential resumes in memory.
When he is inaugurated next January, Obama will be expected to achieve the many incredible things he promised. He will be expected to tame a wild and scary economy. He will be expected to expand tax revenues to reduce government borrowing and expansion of an already burgeoning national debt. He will be expected to restore stability and prosperity to the middle class. He will be expected to make affordable health care available to every American. He will be expected to efficiently and quickly end the unpopular military occupation in Iraq. He will be expected to win the war on terror and to guarantee that we will never experience another 9-11. He will be expected to make a college education available to all Americans who desire one. He will be expected to bring new respect and enthusiasm for U.S. interests around the world.
Some Americans even expect him to pay their burdensome mortgages, and fill their tanks with gas. In short, Barack Obama was elected because he promised to fix everything that makes us anxious.
The question is will he deliver? Can he deliver?
The euphoria of his historic election will soon wear off, and Barack Obama will soon discover that sitting at the desk where the buck stops, is a far cry from what he had imagined out on the campaign trail, where words come easy. The American people will have an epiphany too. Barack Obama is not the Messiah.
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And don’t forget that he promised that he can implement all his new social programs without raising taxes on anyone who makes over $250,000 per year. It would sure be nice if the media would make him account for all the great campaign promises that never become reality.
It is easy to imagine that the desk in the Oval Office will finally have a responcible person working at it again. After 8 long years of an irresponcible occupant in the Oval Office it will be a breath of fresh air!