Well, it's finally over. Barack H. Obama is now the President-elect and on January 20. 2009, he will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Mr. Obama ran an effective campaign and is a very good and clever orator; John McCain simply could not counter Obama's carefully worded political spin, rhetoric, or the popular tide against Republican rule. Now comes the honeymoon period and I expect it to be quite a celebration. It is a historic moment in American History.
After the back slapping and accolades end, it will be back to business and it will be interesting to see how Obama attempts to deliver all his grandiose campaign promises. I doubt that he will and I hope that I am wrong but I have a strong feeling that the government will continue to grow by leaps and bounds at an even faster clip than under George W. Bush. All in all, I do hope that Obama turns out to be a good President for the sake of the country; I hope that he surprises me and doesn't make a hard(er) turn to the left (Jeff Perren comments that he's already there). Otherwise, all the celebrating will be forgotten rather quickly to harder times.
4 comments:
Hello VH,
It's a pretty disappointing ending. On the sunny side up of this, it's our turn to criticize: Where's our middleclass tax cut?
Where's our additional tax refund that we didn't work for? It's already six months and you have not yet brought one soldier home! When are you going to make the economy robust again? I demand all of your promises be accomplished now! When will I see change?
Yup, he's in for a real shock. But then again, he's the Messiah, everything should all go hunky-dory for him.
Tasha
Hey Tasha,
Yup, let them sit in the hot seat for a while and see how they like it. With Obama, I suspect that he will get a long honeymoon period because he is the first African-American to hold the office. But sooner or later there will have to be results.
Lord, lord, how much further to the left would he have to go (other than to deliver on even half his promises) before he would be considered hard left?
And don't get too cheery about the criticism he'll get. The left are experts at deflecting blame onto anyone but themselves and Obama will be the master of that.
"Lord, lord, how much further to the left would he have to go (other than to deliver on even half his promises) before he would be considered hard left?" You are right...I feel what you're saying...he's already there. But I'm holding out that he moves out of there to get us out of this mess.
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