Obama Lays Plans to Kill Expectations After Election Victory

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 are harboring 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.”

Dear readers: I promise I will try to avoid falling into despair if Barack Obama is elected president and fails to deliver on his 1,001 promises.

But I dunno. My gut tells me that Obama is not going to win. (Believe my gut at your own peril.)

Despite his huge money advantage and his many admirers in the MSM and despite his having scurried into the cold embrace of Bill Clinton, Obama has still not persuaded the electorate that he’s The One. He’s not convincing.

That’s because he’s not a real leader. He only plays one on TV (sometimes with the aid of $700,000 in staging and lighting).