setting expectations

Looking back at

President-Elect Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech from Chicago, Illinois on November 4, 2008

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem.

The Buck Stop Where?

From BHO first interview Feb, 10 2009
“What I won’t do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place"

Blame shifting?

Truman had a plaque that said "The Buck stops here", perhaps HBO should dust off the plaque.

Just to be perfectly clear on what BO thinks cased the current economic plight

Obama blames reckless Republican policies for economic plight

Obama blames financial crisis on Republican economic policy

Barack Obama has expanded his call for stricter control of the US financial sector into an across-the-board attack on the laissez-faire economics

Obama said he would reach across the aisle on a range of issues

And in unrelated news

House Passes Stimulus Plan With No G.O.P. Votes

Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the package, the new president, according to participants, replied: “I won.”

Crowd applauds Obama's call for personal responsibility

Obama addresses global warming summit

"Few challenges facing America -- and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change," he says in the video. "The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season. Climate change and our dependence on foreign oil, if left unaddressed, will continue to weaken our economy and threaten our national security.

Obama continues that "too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office. My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.

And in unrelated news

Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat

This is from a while ago but kind of ties in to the previous post.

Nancy Pelosi Pelosi says she won't bring offshore oil drilling to vote

And in unrelated news
Pelosi invests in T. Boone Pickens's Clean Energy Fuels Corp which would directly benefit for above legislation.

Sen. Stabenow (D) wants hearings on radio ‘accountability’; talks fairness doctrine

blah, blah, blah want to mandate a liberal point of view on the Radio airwaves.

And in unrelated news
Her husband is Tom Athans is an executive at a company that produces Radio shows that will gain financial from such legislation.

BHO calls for a halt to global warming

From BHO's
inaugural speech

"and roll back the specter of a warming planet"

And in unrelated news:

* Private Jets are the most damaging form of transportation

* Dulles airport report that record number of private jets fly in for BHO's inauguration

* Not Enough Parking for Private Jets Going to UN Climate Conference

* With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming

* Prince Charles turns in private jet in effort to cut global warming emissions

President Barack Obama calls on personal responsiblity

This is a photo of the Washington Mall the day after Obama's call:

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world"

Hum, I guess he forgot the part to pick up after ourselves and respect public property.