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Jan. 20th, 2009 12:19 pm
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Barack Obama is not the messiah. He is the POTUS. There is no man on earth who can use that office to provide anywhere near as much as what you expect from him.
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Date: 2009-01-20 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marmota.livejournal.com
cf clay feet, emperor's scanty wardrobe, etc. There will be a "the honeymmoon is OVER" moment soon enough.

Date: 2009-01-20 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ocschwar.livejournal.com
Also checks and balances.

Crooked timber of humanity.

Tsunamis of stupid.

Obama's up against this regardless of what he's made of.

Date: 2009-01-20 06:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ckd
There's expect, and there's desire. I won't get everything I desire, but my expectations are that he'll try hard, succeed at some things, fail at others, and ignore things I think are important for other things I find less important. I think those are pretty reasonable: no walking on water, loaves and fishes, et al.

As for exceeding expectations, well, the last guy far exceeded my expectations...of his ability to screw things up. (After the 5-4 election I thought to myself "well, he's a total foreign policy lightweight, but he has some fairly experienced advisors so it shouldn't be too horrible." Man, was I ever wrong.)

Date: 2009-01-20 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quietann.livejournal.com
Not a fangirl here, except in the very trivial "OMG that is a good-looking, well-spoken, smart man, swoon!" sense. But none of those things automatically make him a good POTUS. He's got the toughest job in the world, and has *got* to be better at it than his predecessor.

Date: 2009-01-20 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dw-duck.livejournal.com
Normally I wouldn't mind, because they'll learn from it and hopefully not be suckered so easily next time. But I'm scared of the all-encompassing groupthink...

Date: 2009-01-20 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenlily.livejournal.com
Barack Obama is not the messiah. He is the POTUS. There is no man on earth who can use that office to provide anywhere near as much as what you expect from him.

Well, except for Jed Bartlett. :(

I do understand what you mean, though. Some of the more zealous folks around my place of business seem to have got a bit unbalanced.

Date: 2009-01-20 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowninja7.livejournal.com
As a non-fanboy (dude, politicians are people) I still find the crowd's behavior kind of cute. To be honest, I think only part of it is infatuation with Obama; close to half of it is reaction to the last Bush. I'm personally happy to have a person in office who seems to actually make decisions based on facts and basic logical reasoning. It's a refreshing change, even though it should be the status quo regardless of party affiliation.

Date: 2009-01-20 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jennsteele.livejournal.com
How about "not Bush" I'm pretty sure he can do that, and that's really my best expectation.

Date: 2009-01-20 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenala.livejournal.com
Power, enthusiastic fans, and a supportive press are a dangerous combination, I think...

Date: 2009-01-21 03:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jforbess.livejournal.com
What I expect from Obama is more speeches demanding us, the American people, to step up and be good people like we have been and can be and will be.

Date: 2009-01-21 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abce.livejournal.com
Sadly, (and as a previous commenter noted), much of the love for him is based entirely on unbridled (and generally unwarranted) hatred of the prior competent officeholder. Fortunately for the mind, it is capable of failing to compare, and note all of the similarities.

Date: 2009-01-21 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com
- Ceteris paribus, a President is worth several small hills of beans. But ceteris ain't paribus, or Obama wouldn't be where he is.

- There are about five major (and 187 minor) dimensions on which we are currently fucked. On some of them, we're fucked because the Bush administration has been operating at 30% competence. If Obama makes 60% (and hey, his campaign was run at 90% for two years, so...), that's twice as good, innit?

- My bar is pretty low. All he needs to do is set up death camps for the creationists ("I'll give you something to cry about") and turn the Capitol into a gay bathhouse (should just be a matter of décor) and we'll be chill.
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