Barack Obama Admits he Can’t Fulfill His Campaign Promises

 Yesterday I had this story about the media trying to lower the expectations of what president-elect Obama will be able to accomplish. The New York Times was using the economy as an excuse for Obama. The gist of that article was that because of the bad economy Barack Obama wasn’t going to be able to fulfill all of his campaign promises.

 Today we can read here that Obama himself is now setting the stage for his possible failure to fulfill his campaign promises. Evidently Obama reads the New York Times and agreed that the economy sounded like a good excuse to use to blame whatever shortcomings he has in regards to promises made during the campaign. He should probably sent the New York Times a thank you letter for the idea.

I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped,” Obama said

 Now he wants to be realistic? Shouldn’t he have been realistic all along? Now that he has been elected he can be realistic but during the campaign he was allowed to promise too much to too many and he was never called on it by the media. He was allowed to present a glowing Utopian paradise where he will give everybody anything that they want and the media just bowed to him and showered praise upon him. The media and their lack of journalist credibility allowed Obama to portray himself as the One who would solve all of our problems.

 Now that he is about to be inaugurated and there is no way in hell that he can live up to the expectations that he created for himself, along with an all to willing media, the media has decided that they need to start providing him cover just in case he fails. President-elect Obama, seeing the chance for cover that the New York Times provided, has jumped right on board with the notion that because of the economy we will have to lower our expectations of what Barack Obama can accomplish.

 He isn’t even in power yet and the media is already making excuses for Obama before he has had a chance to either succeed or fail.

 Perhaps Barack Obama and the media should have been more realistic, (in other words truthful), with the American people in the first place. And perhaps the American people should have been more realistic in the first place also.