Uh Yeah, About that Hope and Change: Obama Advisers Try to Lower Expectations

I told you this long before the election was over. There are going to be a whole lot of Obamatons with buyer's remorse. Not only is "hope" going down the drain, as Obama is in the process of instituting Clinton's third term, it's taking "change" with it.

President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.

They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.

A top economic advisor to Obama had a glum warning for the rest of us Thursday morning: Neither the job market nor the stock market will be turning around any time soon.

"This might be a long haul," said Robert Reich, who was President Bill Clinton's secretary of labor. "2009 is going to be a very hard year. Some economists say we won't be out of this for two years, others are saying it may be three, or four, maybe five years."

"We all have to be very careful about the expectations that we are putting on this man, our president-elect," Reich said. "If we all assume it's going to be the first 100 days, we're going to be disappointed."

This all just how elitists say that Obama promised a bunch of stuff he never intended to deliver. Nice of them to tell the Obamatons about it. Of course, an honest man would have pointed this out BEFORE the election.