Obama - Hero or Zero?

Today, Obama has been in office, the Oval Office, for exactly 100 days. It´s time a for résumé, isn´t it?
All in all, he gave 514 election pledges, which is quite a lot! How many of them has he already fulfilled, how many has he failed, which of them haven´t been touched at all?
Due to introducing himself as "The Saviour" and being introduced as such, Obama has quite a heavy burden. He is a man of great charisma, congeniality and enthusiasm. But saving the world is not a question of these character traits, words have to be followed by actions! He promised to reduce wars, fight against the global economic crisis, improve the climatic situation in the USA as well as worldwide etc etc…
Obama started his presidential term fulminantly, he has been present not only in media but also and especially physically all around the world, i.e. his attendance at the NATO summit in Europe and his further journey to Turkey and China. But nevertheless it becomes apparent that Barack Obama is not a supernatural miracle, but more a man of earthly character. He has kept his pledges concerning climate and energy – the USA have changed their attitude to the understanding of the climatic disaster, but nevertheless the present legislative initiatives are not sufficient, but of course this needs time to be fulfilled!
A big promise was the closing down of Guantanamo. Obama wants to close this prison down, but at the same time he has not declared what is to be done with the prisoners. This is more an act of a symbolic character!
The American nation has to remain patient and uncomplaining; they may not expect miracles!In contrast to the Bush era people are now more interested in politics again which is the basis for a successful engagement and teamwork in solving the crises ahead. Obama cannot spirit them [the crises] off – he is absolutely dependent on the people´s support and help. There are so many obstacles on his way that it won´t be easy to put things back on track. But if he has the support of the American nation, he can and will be successful! but if several of his attempts fail, he will lose this support and is “just another politician” – that´s how society works… But - does Obama still get support by the Amercan nation? I found this public-opinion poll published by the Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/28/baracks-in-the-basement/

According to this, Obama is the second least popular president in the last 40 years. Inexplicable! Can you imagine why that is the case?

Considering these first 100 days, one has to say, that “he [Obama] really has changed the tone” (Tina Brown) and that he has already done a lot. But at the same time, it is still a long and winding road. The biggest problems are the global economic crisis and the climatic desaster; the USA have changed their attitude to the understanding of the climatic disaster, but nevertheless the present legislative initiatives are not sufficient, but of course this needs time to be fulfilled, as said above. Many pledges haven´t been touched yet, but with regard to those too crises of a worldwide concern, it is absolutly understandable. In my opinion Obama will make his way and his poll numbers will rise.

Here is the video I took the quote by Tina Brown from. It´s a conversation between Bob Schieffer as host, Tina Brown (The Daily Beast) and Bob Woodward (The Washington Post) on the show “Face the Nation”. They also sum up the first 100 days – to what extent to they agree on Obama being successful? Find out!




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Introduction

Good Morning Ladys & Gentlemen!

This blog has just been created and there is not a typing mistake in its title - that´s wanted…

On this platform Presidential Elections in the US will be discussed - facts that hit the nail on the head and facts that hit the nail in the broadest sense. What this is? That´s a surprise!For I´d like to focus only on the essence, the important things, pre-selections to topics being worth discussing have to be made! Others can feel free to talk about issues of no importance…

Since the American Elections play an important role on this blog and the Obama election in particular, I´d like to do a résumé on his first 100 days.

This leads directly to the first Moment of Zen: Is Obama really the "Hero" as he has been described, shown and presented by new and old media devices? If he is not - has he failed in his challenge?

It will be interesting analysing his achievements up to now.

This is a video by Amnesty International posted on YouTube on Jan 15th, 2009, before Obama was actually inaugurated; it is a rather ironic view on the expectations, but nevertheless it has a serious content, don´t forget that!

Also visit the AI-website: www.obama100days.com !

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