I suspect that, in the beginning at least, most folks felt about Bush the way you did about Obama - that they hoped his policies would fail. By the time he was elected for a second term, though, they were starting to question his policies and his fitness as a leader beyond the fact that he's a very right-leaning Republican. By now, they've mostly given up hope that Bush could do anything right (according to them, not according to you).
I was reading back through my US politics posts, and I saw the one I made after Bush defeated Kerry. In a lot of ways, I think more or less the same thing about America under Obama. A little less, perhaps, since Obama as a person has impressed me personally more than Kerry did. But, ultimately, I would be extremely surprised if Obama managed to keep every promise that's been attributed to him over the last few years; I would be extremely astonished if he doesn't do things that have both right and left wing screaming at him; and I would be all agog if he didn't work for what he thought was the best for the USA - which, sometimes, will not be 'the best' for other countries.
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Date: 2009-01-20 08:01 pm (UTC)I suspect that, in the beginning at least, most folks felt about Bush the way you did about Obama - that they hoped his policies would fail. By the time he was elected for a second term, though, they were starting to question his policies and his fitness as a leader beyond the fact that he's a very right-leaning Republican. By now, they've mostly given up hope that Bush could do anything right (according to them, not according to you).
I was reading back through my US politics posts, and I saw the one I made after Bush defeated Kerry. In a lot of ways, I think more or less the same thing about America under Obama. A little less, perhaps, since Obama as a person has impressed me personally more than Kerry did. But, ultimately, I would be extremely surprised if Obama managed to keep every promise that's been attributed to him over the last few years; I would be extremely astonished if he doesn't do things that have both right and left wing screaming at him; and I would be all agog if he didn't work for what he thought was the best for the USA - which, sometimes, will not be 'the best' for other countries.