This recent Daily Show peice with John Oliver sums up my feelings about the inauguration of Obama pretty well. It appears that the president is indeed following through with some of his promises. I believe ‘cautiously optimistic’ is an appropriate phrase.
Update: Politifact has created a really nice list of 500 promises made by Obama. They will be updating the status of each of his promises (no action, in the works, stalled, promise kept, compromise or promise broken) during the course of his presidency.
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January 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm
That was very funny.
‘In Germany you have a lot of experience with charismatic leaders.’
You mentioned it when we spoke in Prague, but the most surprising thing is that people outside of America seem to care so much. It appears that the English are paying a lot of attention, the reasoning seems to be that ‘the most powerful man on the planet’ being intelligent must surely be a good thing. It didn’t occur to me until now, but what that shows is how used we have become to the idiocy of Bush, being surprised by an intelligent and charismatic man taking his mantle (nobody remembers Clinton?).