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Rik, I suspect both sides are going to be lowering expectations. Neither
plan will work unless aggressive cuts in spending are made. I have heard
Palin say they will balance budget in 4 years??? At this point both sides
will say pretty much anything.

Wally
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk
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