[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Money for Nothing and the Chicks for Free!

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

Yeah, ha ha, I saw that somewhere else too. Imagine her chagrin a few 
months down the road when things haven't changed or maybe have even 
gotten worse. I sure hope they interview her again then.

I see where the Obama campaign is readying a program to get these 
peoples expectation back down to a more realistic level. Of course, that 
won't happen until AFTER they have voted him in.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/obama-lays-plans-kill-expectations-election-victory/

Obama Lays Plans to Kill Expectations After Election Victory
Confident in an Election Day win, the campaign looks to lower 
supporters' expectations on concerns their hopes of 'change' are 
unrealistic, a senior aide says

FOXNews.com

Friday, 2008-31-305

By Tim Reid, The Times of London

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.

In an interview with a Colorado radio station, 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.

"I won't stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy -- 
especially now," Obama told a rally in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, 
citing "the cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in 
Iraq." Obama's transition team is headed by John Podesta, a Washington 
veteran and a former chief-of-staff to Bill Clinton. He has spent months 
overseeing a virtual Democratic government-in-exile to plan a smooth 
transition should Obama emerge victorious next week.

The plans are so far advanced that an Obama Cabinet has been largely 
decided upon, with the expectation that most of his senior appointments 
could be announced shortly after election day.

Read the full report at The Times of London

Will Rogers often said, "There's nothing quite like money in the bank." He went on to say, "I'm not so concerned about the return on my money as I am about the return of my money."



Brad Haslett wrote:
> Hell, I want my vote back now!  No gas or mortgage payments?  No
> wonder everyone loves this guy!  Brad
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk
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