Obama Warns his Supporters not to Expect too Much From Him

It started even before the election was over, it started with this article. What am I talking about? The tamping down of the unrealistic expectations that President-elect Obama has created with his supporters. The article talks about how once Obama assumes the presidency there will be no real change.

despite Obama’s often repeated call for “change” during the campaign, many of the writers and political experts who spoke said Obama would pursue familiar paths as president.

There is really no “change” in any of President-elect Obama’s plans, they have all been proposed before.

James Matthews, a management consultant based in New York, said that on domestic issues such as education, nearly all of Obama’s policies have been seen before. He predicted that many young college students who were among his strongest supporters would feel severely let down after the election.

This appears to me to be a warning to Obama’s supporters not to expect too much to get done and not to expect a whole hell of allot of change.

Barack Obama himself tried to slow down the enthusiasm of unrealistic expectation to his audience during his victory speech last night.

President-elect Obama, during his speech said:

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts.

In that first statement he is either warning voters that he can’t possibly give everything to everyone, as he promised, or he is already starting his re-election bid.

Everyone knows that Barack Obama can’t deliver on everything that he promised, well everyone but the people who voted for him. And with the article that appeared before the election and Obama himself during his victory speech he is trying to slow down the expectations of the voters who supported him.

Now that he has won the election he is trying to be slightly more honest with the American people. Not fully honest, he can’t admit that he said whatever it took to become the president-elect, but he is trying to let them down slowly.