High Expectations

For months now I have been talking to friends and family about how all of the Obama supporters who keep touting the token, "Change" theme will be sorely disappointed if he is elected and he can't deliver any substantial change. I guess they think an Obama administration can pull the US and, for that matter, the world out of economic recession and military disputes. The Obama administration will have A LOT of people who are really mad that the "lollipops and rainbows" change that they thought they were going to get is not delivered. Obama's campaign has finally realized this as well and are now warning their own supporters that the change they have promised can not happen as they have made it sound.

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.

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