Talk is Cheap! Has Obama Betrayed Campaign Slogan of "Change"? 
"The reason most Americans supported an unknown, untested, thinly experienced Barack Obama as president was that they were desperate for real change. His unequivocal mandate was to bring change.
"Instead, we watch as he appoints person after person from the Clinton political machine, creating a virtual third Clinton presidency -- the very re-creations many of us had worked hard to prevent.
"Instead of taking the mantle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he has taken the mantle of Bill Clinton.
Sherrie Matza of San Francisco in her letter to the New York Times on November 22 wrote the following:
"Recognizing and forcefully admitting that it makes a difference when brilliant people run our government is a bold proclamation from a conservative pundit (David Brooks).
"If the White House surrounds itself with brilliance, instead of self-interest, our children cannot help but sit up and take notice."
There are sharply conflicting views on Obama reaching out to his political rivals who have long held opposite views.
Certainly this displays reaching out across the aisle for unity. But has Obama, in this goodwill, betrayed the viewpoint of voters who voted for him?
Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War. Even after it became evident that the Iraq War was launched on lies, Hillary was agreeing with Bush in pinning the label of terrorists on Iran's Guard, which possibly could have led to war against Iran.
Hillary scoffed at Barack Osama's "naïve" suggestion of talking with Iran's leadership, thus approaching Iran's differences with diplomacy. In a nuclear age, heating things up with threatening rhetoric can trigger unmanageable catastrophe.
Obama certainly is no Abraham Lincoln or FDR. He is an excellent orator who can effectively deliver a speech. But the time in which we live is not the Lincoln or FDR era. This is the nuclear age.
Now Obama faces what to do in the continuing Iraq and Afghanistan wars. With Iraq reeling from infrastructure demolition, hundreds of thousands dead and wounded and riots over the agreement being promoted for U.S. troops to stay to 2011, along with Bush being burned in effigy, is an obvious display of rage and anger, with demands for the U.S. to get out now!
Stirring up Russia's fears by planting rocket launching pads on its borders with Poland and the Czech Republic is not the way to win friends and influence people in Russia.
It is also glaringly apparent that we haven't won many friends in the Middle East with the Iraq War. With the collapse of the U.S. financial system, thrown in for good measure for Barack Obama to turn around, the question must be asked:
Is this the impossible dream?
KEYWORDS: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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