Nov 14
Great Expectations?
A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans expect great things from the Obama presidency, according to CNN:
“The public thinks it’s likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and remove U.S. troops from Iraq without causing a major upheaval in that country.”
That would be a tall order even for a president coming into office on a thriving economy and a nation whose residents are generally satisfied. For a president taking office in a slumping economy when many people have been saying for years that the country is headed in the “wrong direction” and we face a stunning national debt, those expectations seem a bit ludicrous.
How much can one president accomplish? It remains to be seen.
But I’m curious about what you’re expecting. Vote in the Patrick’s Place Poll in the sidebar.
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November 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I think those expectations make him sound like a savior instead of a man. And frankly, if that many people really are expecting all of that from him, it makes me feel very uneasy….very nervous. Something akin to a prim-rose path.