Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters have unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.
The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of “hope” and “change” are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.
One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, “so there’s not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair”.
Well, Barry, I can promise you that there will be a vast mood swing, it's just a matter of whether it's immediate or whether it takes a couple of years. Best you deaden away.
Cunt.
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Had you shown me that without giving me a source, I'd say it was The Onion, or Private Eye.
Christ, the US is fucked.
But...
Well surely, by Friday week the Iraqi's will be stuffing flowers down the barrels of those nasty American M16's? The World's economy will be postively perky? The old, infirm and sick will be revelling in affordable healthcare? Half the Whitehouse will be staffed by Billy-Bobs and Leroys? Iran will have handed over their A-bomb? Peace and Love will spontaneously errupt across the face of the globe?
Ermmm, won't it?
Damn. I can't think of anything to add to JP's list. I would suggest amending the original quote to read "so there's not a vast mood swing from despair to suicidal depression", is all.
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