Not too long ago the media was covering a president who was defined as disconnected, apathetic, aloof, out of touch with the American people, living in a bubble or a glass-house called the White House. But, of course, only a few of us choose to remember that. The rest seem to have gotten collective amnesia in the midst of what now seems to be a fully-fledged presidential reelection campaign.
During the past two months, the strategy of the White House seems to have shifted toward regaining lost voter confidence, morale being at an all-time low, with people either crowding the streets en masse during Occupy Wall Street protests, or sitting 'round the dinner table depressed, reading the latest job numbers or economic indicators. Or just checking their bank balance and realizing they did not stay in the black this week.
We are dealing with a country that is living its day-to-day struggles in a repetitive inferno, offset, if only by show after show of political pundits making their rounds, robot-like, reviving a campaign propaganda of a candidate whose approval ratings now linger at a miserable forty per cent.
What is even more astonishing to me is that, while it is clear how the economy has suffered during these past three years, ardent supporters of this president refuse to accept the notion that the man was elected on a platform of hope and change, be it hyped. and he has let this country down. He was elected for a four year term, and in year three we see little of what was promised, in a grandiose, but oh so naive exposition of the way America should be. And most of us, myself included fell for the rhetoric. Yes, even I, who consider myself among those less gullible. Happens, when you are overcome by feelings versus rationality.
But I promise not to repeat my mistake come 2012.
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