Laying the ground work

Barack Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after election victory

At least Clinton waited 30 days before telling people that he had fed them a line to get elected. This guy isn't even waiting until election day.

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 harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.

Unrealistic hopes?, He is the one that has been promising to lower the seas, make the terrorists love us, give everyone $1,000, and cure cancer( last one was sarcasm).

In an interview with a Colorado radio station, Mr Obama appeared to be engaged already in expectation lowering. Asked about his goals for the first hundred days, he said he would need more time to tackle such big and costly issues as health care reform, global warming and Iraq. “The first hundred days is going to be important, but it’s probably going to be the first thousand days that makes the difference,” he said. He has also been reminding crowds in recent days how “hard” it will be to achieve his goals, and that it will take time.

If he is elected, he will potentially have a veto proof Democratic congress, so that any wacko idea they come up with can be sailed through, yet it will take 3 years before you see anything?
I read an article that talked about the furor of the crowd. What the gist of it was that when you have someone with a "blank" slate for a background running for office, people project their idea of the perfect leader on to that person. He can be anything to anyone and it is accepted at face value because he is "just like me". This phenomenon has occurred several times in the past, usually carried out by someone who eventually creates an authoritarian government. Examples of this are Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Idi Amin, Castro....etc..etc..
Now, is Obama the next Stalin? Probably not, or at least lets hope not. My opinion is that if he wins, you still have all those entrenched old time democrats that will probably really run things. He will just be the rubber stamp president. My feeling is that he is their "Manchurian" candidate in that they realized they can't win if they have someone that has actually voted on something. So just follow the Clinton model. Pick some unknown, with limited voting record that you can cover up and send them up to run. People will see him/her as the "ideal" candidate for change and boom, the next president. Lets just see if people fall for it again.