Months into Obama's presidency, promise of 'change' is a slow go
[cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/10/20/us.iraq.trade/art.maliki.obama.afp.gi.jpg caption="President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki posed for a picture in the Oval Office last month."]
Candy Crowley
CNN
On that unusually balmy Chicago night a year ago, the candidate who campaigned on what he called the "fierce urgency of now" became the president-elect who needed time.
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term," Barack Obama told the crowd in Grant Park. And he still needs time to turn a myriad of campaign promises into policy.
The list of the undones is long, varied and mostly difficult - immigration reform, new financial market regulations and a game-changing energy bill.
And compounding problems on the president's lengthy to-do list is that 2010 is an election year, generally an inefficient time for lawmaking.
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I used to get upset about this because I was wanting BIG changes. I finally came to the conclusion that all Obama promised was "change"; not good change or bad change, just change. And we've seen changes.
Looking from a perspective of a Brazilian , it hurts to see so much criticism to a president who, it is obvious to everybody except Americans, has the best intentions at heart.
Dear Lord, why don't you people let the man work without blocking his every attempt to change anything with a flow of verbal abuse?
That's why, to put it in a very simple way, there is almost no change.
Aff.
"Miles to go before I sleep".
Four years left for Obama to perform.
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One term is all Obama gets. He is bankrupting this country at a record pace. The only change we see coming is more debt and higher taxes. He made so many promises he KNEW he would never be able to keep, yet nobody, including the media bothered to call him out on them. Next time don't give this guy a free pass, ask the questions we want answers to instead of cramming Jimmy Carter #2 down our throats. It will take us years to recover from this mess. We can only hope the change Obama wants (socialism) is stopped dead in it's tracks.