The Lotus

I agree Niloufar

I was overly excited when Obama came to office, but I guess we all expected something that the system is not setup to deliver. So in a sense it's not his fault!

It's like a bottling machine than can only produce bottles and you can't expect it to make other parts. The system, like anywhere else, is not modifiable (but reformable to a degree).

Thanks for the post.

Unfortunately...

Unfortunately, Obama has been too busy avoiding being a bull in the china shop. He certainly is not decisive, nor bold, nor a strategic thinker.
First, he should have listened to himself when he said before the Iraq invasion that he was against 'dumb wars.' Both occupations, Iraq & Afghanistan, are dumb purile whiteman's colonial wars, and are doomed to fail. Given the US economic crisis & universal oppositions to these dumb bloody occupations, he could have dealt with this most divisive & onerous legacy with a stroke of a pen by announcing a unilateral withdrawl of the US forces. He did no such thing. America is in a classic fix: a long dragged/drugged out guerilla war on two fronts with drain on the US treasury, with no victory in sight, with mounting alienation of the Moslem world, with unpredictible consequences & 'blowbacks', in short, the dumb is getting dumber; an outright withdrawl would signal America's defeat. That is precisely why he should have decisively withdrawn the US forces, and begun a set of policies to stablize the ME through inviting the cooperation of Iran & others in the ME. This move would have brought enormous good will from all players. He thus wasted a golden oppurtinity. As is, he has dumbly commited the US forces of occupation for the remainder of his presidency. Dumb, Dumber, the Dumbest blunder!
Secondly, the ramshackle US infrastructure, and that cynical joke, better known as US Health Care System, have been in desperate need of a total overhaul which would require massive investments. and a concomittant twistinng of the arms of the special interst (insurance companies, the Wall Street, the military-industrial, etc). This massive investment, would have produced millions of good jobs, but would have required, slashing the onerous defence budget & arms limitations negotiation with the Russians. But he was not decisive and he will not be decisive, he is just a martinet of the 'tweedledee tweedleDUMB' plutocratic system. How sad & tragic!

how do you eat an elephant?

one bite at the time. Criticizing without offering alternative is only empty critiques. How could one be so judgmental without knowing what it takes to run a country? I think if we look at what he has done objectivity we will be able to see changes he has made to the politics of this country. I am so very happy about where he is and what he has done so far (and clearly I am not alone)