Obama Lays Plans to Kill Expectations After Electi

rgcraig · #1 10-31-2008, 10:00 AM

By Tim Reid, The Times of London

Barack Obama's senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week's election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.

The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of "hope" and "change" are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.

One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, "so there's not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair."

The aide said that Obama himself was the first to realize that expectations risked being inflated.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10...ction-victory/

So the TRUTH is hitting them in the face now!

George · #2 10-31-2008, 10:06 AM

Every time I hear him making promises, I question his integrity because he cannot possibly change everything he has been claiming he will change.

Pressing-On · #3 10-31-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by George

Every time I hear him making promises, I question his integrity because he cannot possibly change everything he has been claiming he will change.

Exactly! I just believe the American people know that!

TRFrance · #4 10-31-2008, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by George

Every time I hear him making promises, I question his integrity because he cannot possibly change everything he has been claiming he will change.

Even if Obama has a bad 4-year term as President, there are Democrats who will blame Bush. They'll say something like: "it's hard for Barack to undo in one term the mess that George Bush created in 8 years".

So he has a ready made excuse. Pretty convenient.

deacon blues · #5 10-31-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by TRFrance

Even if Obama has a bad 4-year term as President, there are Democrats who will blame Bush. They'll say something like: "it's hard for Barack to undo in one term the mess that George Bush created in 8 years".

So he has a ready made excuse. Pretty convenient.

His media sympathizers are already trying to lay the groundwork:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...1777682.column

TRFrance · #6 10-31-2008, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

His media sympathizers are already trying to lay the groundwork:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...1777682.column

Yup.

This is the same LA Times that is trying to protect Obama by not releasing that damaging video tape they have of him.

tbpew · #7 11-02-2008, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by George

Every time I hear him making promises, I question his integrity because he cannot possibly change everything he has been claiming he will change.

Unless his handler(s) (folks like Wright or a Farrakhan) have successfully sown the idea in his head that he is the revelation of a new world destiny; a deliverer, messiah entering the stage.

I think US presidents are subject to this kind of delusional thinking....and maybe a sizable amount of Christian political zealots as well.

Pressing-On · #8 10-31-2008, 10:06 AM

I wish I had saved an article I read the other day discussing how they have lifted Obama up so high to only show, if he is elected, that he won't be able to carry that image - at all!

The entertainment industry is just driving this nation - it's ignorance at best!

iceniez · #9 10-31-2008, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I wish I had saved an article I read the other day discussing how they have lifted Obama up so high to only show, if he is elected, that he won't be able to carry that image - at all!

The entertainment industry is just driving this nation - it's ignorance at best!

Have you ever noticed his demeanor ? To me he always seems to have a scoul on his face. As the Italians would say what is written on the heart is written on the face.

tamor · #10 10-31-2008, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by iceniez

Have you ever noticed his demeanor ? To me he always seems to have a scoul on his face. As the Italians would say what is wriien on the heart is written on the face.

So does his wife!