How Long Until Obama Voters Realize Obama Can't Fulfill Their Expectations?

[Rael]

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[Time for Change]

I think they all have rose colored glasses and will never wake up to the fact that the system never changed...only the taxes and the removal of more liberty.

[xd9fan]

they will not ever tell you public that they are mad with him.
He will be protected.

[roho76]

6 months things go to hell then another 6 months and they get out the pitch forks.

[Borgenator]

He'll have nothing significant done by the first six to twelve months....but they'll all still love him....I mean, he got elected without a plan on how to fix the country....What I'd really love to see is the media pull another George W. on Obama...after all the work they've done to get him into office....I'd probably die of laughter.

[Omphfullas Zamboni]

six years

[satchelmcqueen]

6 months to never.

[A. Havnes]

I think it largely depends on how long the media can maintain the hype, actually. How long will Obama's charisma win people over is also an issue.

[RSLudlum]

They'll still be blaming Bush and 'conservatives' for the huge burden that has been placed upon Obama's shoulders, and I don't disagree with them although the liberals had an equivalent hand in it. But of course, they won't admit that.

[jackers]

8 years or 12 if the term limits are removed.

[pinkmandy]

They won't. There will always be an excuse made for him.

[Kludge]

Within weeks. The media did Obama no favors by starting his honeymoon period prior to winning the G.E.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

This guy could start eating babies during the state of the union address while kicking his daughters' puppy and downloading child porn and at least 85% of the obots would still think he was the messiah. This country is doomed!

[nodope0695]

They've all drunk of the coolaid....many may never see the truth.

[newbitech]

summertime

[emazur]

6 months - I predict a constant deterioration of America's economy this year, and no matter how hopeful they were of Obama, when people keep losing their jobs and their homes, they're gonna start getting pissed. Actually, I don't think it would matter which political party was elected president for those 6 months. Democrats are promising the New Deal which won't help, Republicans would continue with massive spending and bailouts which wouldn't fix things, and Libertarians would advocate they that we need to go through temporary painful withdrawal, which would help but would take time for people to feel the benefits (and Libertarians would also have to convince Congress to drastically cut spending, which would be a battle that requires more time).

[Ex Post Facto]

3 Years as the Bush administration will be blamed.

[Conservative Christian]

I predict significant gains for the Repubs in the 2010 mid-term elections. They're likely to take back at least one of the houses of Congress.


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[nobody's_hero]

It will take more than one term. That's what happened with Bush. He was f'in up royally by the end of his first term, but Republicans wouldn't vote for anyone else in the 2004 elections for fear of causing a split and losing to the Democrats. So, he got four bonus years of f'in up that he never should have gotten.

This is what will happen with the Democrats: Ones like Dennis Kucinich who initially supported Barack Obama will wake up first, realize that the Democrats made a mistake by picking Obama, and by the end of Obama's second term, Dennis will be so marginalized that he'll cause just enough ripples to blow a 2016 win by the Democrats like Ron Paul did to McCain.

Then, Republicans go back in office and the cycle starts again (unless Ron Paul is still alive and kicking in 2016 and wins the election).

[The_Orlonater]

6 months things go to hell then another 6 months and they get out the pitch forks.

It's the system itself, and the boom/bust cycle. Obama is only going to make it worse, but if he doesn't do much in the next 6 months(which I hope) then you can't blame it on him only.

Also people in this country are stupid, what do you expect? If the economy keeps continuing this depression then they will blame Obama/Bush and whatever.

We should blame the real culprit, the Federal Reserve. The government is also to blame.

[acptulsa]

Oh, I think they'll realize that their expectations are too high by spring. The only question is, can we help them see that it isn't because they expect too much, but because he's a tool and not even trying to meet their needs?

[Isaac Bickerstaff]

Obama's reductionist policies will kill them before they ever wake up.

[paulitics]

They would rather perish than admit their mistake in judgement.

[Young Paleocon]

Hoover was blamed with the bursting of the bubble in '29, even though he introduced Keynesian stimulus. FDR came in with Hoover's plan on steroids and was elected 4 times because he was attempting to fix the economy Hoover "broke." Therefore, basically the same policies the same failures, but it's perception that counts. So as long as Obama has good intentions it really doesn't matter what he does, it will be like Bush's policies in most respects, but the blame will always be on Repubs, conservatives, and free markets, let alone laissez faire economics, because the bubble burst during their tenure, regardless of the fact that the seeds were sown for this disaster in 1971. It seems Keynesians will always hold sway no matter how many times they fail because they are perceived to care, they have "good" intentions, and it appears that they are doing something to "fix" the problems.

I'll see you when the revolution hits the streets.

[mconder]

Let me make a prediction here. When election time rolls around again in about 3 1/2 years from now, Obama will say he didn't have enough time to fix all of Bush's, the Republican's, and the unregulated free market's mistakes. He will scare and the media will guilt the American people into voting him in for a second term. After all, how can we kick our first Black President out of office after only one term? Don't we owe black people more that that?

[Crash Martinez]

...as long as it takes for Obama's supporters to stop blaming Bush for all the country's problems and start blaming Obama. So yeah, I'd say 8 years to never.

[Crash Martinez]

Let me make a prediction here. When election time rolls around again in about 3 1/2 years from now, Obama will say he didn't have enough time to fix all of Bush's, the Republican's, and the unregulated free market's mistakes. He will scare and the media will guilt the American people into voting him in for a second term. After all, how can we kick our first Black President out of office after only one term? Don't we owe black people more that that?
Ding!

[ihsv]

The populous is emotional about Obama. One thing about human emotion is that it's short lived. Emotional hype can only be maintained for so long before it gives way to reality.

[angelatc]

The same crowd that believes in Obama is the same crowd that believes in big government and socialism. Reason doesn't function in them, nor do the lessons of history.

[cheapseats]

They would rather perish than admit their mistake in judgement.

Being American means never having to say you're sorry.

[heavenlyboy34]

Whatever happens, the excuse will be "Bush had 8 years to fuck it all up, and we need more time to 'fix' it", or some variant thereof. :rolleyes::p

[cheapseats]

The same crowd that believes in Obama is the same crowd that believes in big government and socialism. Reason doesn't function in them, nor do the lessons of history.

This just CANNOT be misunderestimated.

My mind and heart will not permit of going along with an unthinking Majority.

[cheapseats]

Let me make a prediction here. When election time rolls around again in about 3 1/2 years from now, Obama will say he didn't have enough time to fix all of Bush's, the Republican's, and the unregulated free market's mistakes. He will scare and the media will guilt the American people into voting him in for a second term. After all, how can we kick our first Black President out of office after only one term? Don't we owe black people more that that?

He ALREADY said it . . . in his ACCEPTANCE speech when he clinched the deal on the Democratic nomination. Practically the first words out of his mouth were that these changes might not happen in one year, they might not happen in one TERM, but yada yada yada re: prosperity springing from hope or fish painting houses or whatever. He says whatever SOUNDS good. Things that SOUND good make people FEEL good.

Out will come platitudes:

You don't change horses mid-stream

It sends the wrong message to our enemies

These things take time

Stay the course

The one thing Obama CAN'T say is "I never promised you a rose garden," 'cuz he did.

[cheapseats]

Whatever happens, the excuse will be "Bush had 8 years to fuck it all up, and we need more time to 'fix' it", or some variant thereof. :rolleyes::p

That is EXACTLY what the Majority of politically attuned people are doing -- its OWN Elite, I would add. Hauling out the campaign tables, plotting the "victories" seat by seat, for years on end, so that OTHER Politicos can push THEIR agendas until it swings so far it is not sustainable, and then we can overreact BACK the other way. Again. All the while, with a tiny percentage of people making handsome livings at this bullshit.

Entrenched Politicians are creating and perpetuating bullshit, like many many lawyers do, because it establishes their purpose in life, their financial support, and their security. Their financial support and security, for grossly mismanaging a country, renders them SUBSTANTIALLY better off than the people who pay them.

It is lunacy.

[Carole]

"How Long Until Obama Voters Realize Obama Can't Fulfill Their Expectations? "

You left out a category for "Never". These people will never acknowledge their own inability to recognize that Pres BHO has let them down. This is the "Yes, we can" bunch after all.

So I did not get to vote your poll. :)

[HOLLYWOOD]

How about Obama supporters don't care? Whether it be racially, retalitority, or false sense of problems are now solved, modivations.

This appears to be a trend with the Liberal secular individualistic beliefs... whereas, they don;t care about a majority of rights and/or policies, as long as their one or 2 interests are answered.

A good correlation between activist groups and their one subject/policy to be passed/enforced and willing to throw the US Constitution under the liberal bus.

Willing to sacrifice everyone else's rights and freedoms, all for their one selfish objective.

America is now, not a melting pot, just a mixing pot.

[Roxi]

Let me make a prediction here. When election time rolls around again in about 3 1/2 years from now, Obama will say he didn't have enough time to fix all of Bush's, the Republican's, and the unregulated free market's mistakes. He will scare and the media will guilt the American people into voting him in for a second term. After all, how can we kick our first Black President out of office after only one term? Don't we owe black people more that that?



are you related to Nostradamus? :D yeah thats about how i see it playing out too

[Isaac Bickerstaff]

The one thing Obama CAN'T say is "I never promised you a rose garden," 'cuz he did.

Actually, he never did promise a rose garden. He just spewed out a bunch of empty catch phrases, and the throngs of mindless fools heard a promise of a rose garden.

[Matt Collins]

I think the economy will start to turn around during the summer and by the end of the year the national dialog will move to other more political issues that are not specifically economic related.

[tmosley]

They'll realize it in about a hundred years, when all this is happening again, just as conservatives are now waking up to the self-destructive futility of FDR's policies.