FOX news thinks Obama will disappoint....naturally

A FOXnews story run yesterday discussed the lofty promises made by the Barack Obama campaign before the Presidential election. Fox's Wendell Goler does not seem to think Obama has any chance of upholding his promises and establishing all the policies he once advocated. Rather, there is a thought that our new President has set the bar a little too high for himself, and the media, in their comparisons of Obama to Lincoln, MLK, and FDR, have raised it completely out of reach. So according to Goler, Obama's first major decision will be "who to disappoint first."

She quotes historian Douglas Brinkley who speculated about Obama, "He's going to say, 'Look, I was going to build a levee system in New Orleans that would've cost $60 billion to make the city safe for category 5 storms like I promised, but that was before the meltdown of October, and so now I've got to fix the plumbing of capitalism."

There is a suggestion in her article that Obama continued to promise policies and change that were far beyond the means of our government in these restrictive times knowing that the new President could use the economy as a scapegoat when his administration falls short. While it's an awfully pessimistic way of thinking, I have a feeling FOX is not the only one...