There is no doubt that President Obama is charismatic and has huge public following behind him. He came to White House with the message of CHANGE. There is no doubt that Americans and whole world supported him like none other leader in the recent past. His election promises showed that he really wanted to change everything. There was nothing wrong with that. But, once he became president, he started his tenure with a lot of vigor. His first day in office was very eventful. But, he just could not change everything. As a human being, he also has limits.
His office has started many big changes such as economic policy, health care, immigration issues, foreign policy (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan etc.). All these are big issues and needs a lot of debates and should not do in haste. I think that Obama administration is still in election fighting mode and wants to tackle all the issues to gain some more popularity points. Country is facing one of the worst economic problem – unemployment rate is touching 10%. But, he has been batting on so many fronts that he is not able to make any substantiative progress on most of them.
As it was not enough, he was pulled in other issues such as beer summit. He is losing his political equity fast. His rating are going down. But, he is still not picking up his battles. He supported Chicago’s bid for Olympics.
It is right that he was a senator from Chicago but now, he is president of USA. He should have understood that this issue is not worth fighting. As a president of the strongest country of the world, he should not have gone to Copenhagen to support Chicago’s candidacy for Olympics. This was such a small issue that if Chicago would have won candidacy then people would have debated President Obama’s contribution. But, now when Chicago is placed last in the candidacy even with his support then this matter will be debated in the whole world. Time ran this story.
Obama’s Olympic failure will only add to doubts about his presidency.
This matter will subside but this matter should be a learning for Obama administration. Obama administration can not change everything. He has to pick some issues and fight for them. That will be good for Obama and good for United States of America.
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