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EXPECTATIONS TOO HIGH FOR OBAMA?

20 January 2009 by Cullen Roche 0 Comments

I haven’t seen expectations like this since the mighty U.S. military rolled into lowly Iraq with the expectation to conquer a nation in a month.  The public is infatuated with Obama.  Lovefest might be an understatement.  At this point, you have to wonder if expectations are getting a little blown out of proportion.  Obama is facing the most problematic economic crisis in over 70 years.

On the bright side, he’s entering office when things are downright awful, which likely means we’re closer to the bottom than the top.  But you still have to wonder, with such an enormous global economic mess, are expectations too high for President Obama?  Let’s just say, if I could short approval numbers, I’d be calling an Obama top….

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