I listened to the inaguration and Obamas speech and thought it was very good as I expected it to be.
All Presidents get a bit of a honeymoon for the first few months in office while they get their sea-legs steadied, all of their cabinet appointments approved and settled into their jobs. There is always a lot of hoopla when a new President is inagurated and Obama's was no different.
The only reason Bush did not get as many pats on the backs from the Democrats when he was inagurated in 2000 was because of the fiasco in Florida and required the Supreme Court to declare him the winner. So the Democrats felt cheated. I might add that a volunteer group of political science college students took on the task of recounting all of the Florida votes (not just the prescincts that Gore challenged) and the found that Bush did indeed win Florida, and had Gore chanllenged other areas instead of Broward County, etc, he could have picked up more votes, although he still would have lost.
In 2004 the Democrats where humiliated by loosing not only the Presidential election, but got thrown out as the majority in the Congress and Senate. So they were not in a very congratulatory mood.
Also, remember that Bush declared that he was "The Uniter" before he was elected the first time, but that statement seems to be just the opposite of the truth. The Republicans continued to rub the Democrats nose in their defeat, and in 2006 the momentum swung with the Democrats and has gone that way ever since.
Obama gave no guarantees and no President can. They need smart advisors to come up with solutions, and the current economic problems are far, far worse than they were in the depression of 1929, even if they are only calling it a recesion now. This recession is a Global recession. So nobody is trying to give Obama an excuse to fail, and I don't think he will fail.
...Rich
All Presidents get a bit of a honeymoon for the first few months in office while they get their sea-legs steadied, all of their cabinet appointments approved and settled into their jobs. There is always a lot of hoopla when a new President is inagurated and Obama's was no different.
The only reason Bush did not get as many pats on the backs from the Democrats when he was inagurated in 2000 was because of the fiasco in Florida and required the Supreme Court to declare him the winner. So the Democrats felt cheated. I might add that a volunteer group of political science college students took on the task of recounting all of the Florida votes (not just the prescincts that Gore challenged) and the found that Bush did indeed win Florida, and had Gore chanllenged other areas instead of Broward County, etc, he could have picked up more votes, although he still would have lost.
In 2004 the Democrats where humiliated by loosing not only the Presidential election, but got thrown out as the majority in the Congress and Senate. So they were not in a very congratulatory mood.
Also, remember that Bush declared that he was "The Uniter" before he was elected the first time, but that statement seems to be just the opposite of the truth. The Republicans continued to rub the Democrats nose in their defeat, and in 2006 the momentum swung with the Democrats and has gone that way ever since.
Obama gave no guarantees and no President can. They need smart advisors to come up with solutions, and the current economic problems are far, far worse than they were in the depression of 1929, even if they are only calling it a recesion now. This recession is a Global recession. So nobody is trying to give Obama an excuse to fail, and I don't think he will fail.
...Rich
