The Obama campaign is now looking to lower expectations for an Obama administration, the same expectations that it has worked to amplify for more than a year. I'm convinced that it is only a matter of time before all the campaign promises are tossed under the Obama bus, where they will vie with Obama's grandmother and Reverend Wright for attention.
Barack Obama's senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week's election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.
The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of "hope" and "change" are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.
One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, "so there's not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair."
The aide said that Obama himself was the first to realize that expectations risked being inflated.
Obama was the first to realize it. Too funny. But his judgment wasn't such that he could envision that response as a real consequence of running as a blank slate of hope and change who anyone and everyone could project their vision of change onto.
Judgment.
Dangerous. First he fills his airhead supporters with foolish visions of change that he knows he can't accomplish. Now he realizes he has to deal with the prospect of living up to that change if he somehow wins this.
That smell you are noticing is the rotten stench of another Jimmy Carter in the making.
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