Ms Shiver, I have to agree with comments #8 and #9. I do not believe Obama’s image will suffer because of disillusionment, because I believe the media’s control of the narrative is too complete, and it will perhaps take a generation of conservatives’ concerted effort to undo the “long march through the institutions” that the left has achieved.
I believe most of the anger over President Bush’s policies were media generated, to start with. Most Americans are not in the media, and most of the liberals shouting the loudest probably don’t even know one person in the military. So all the upset is not because people they know are dying in overseas wars. It’s because the media told them to be upset.
How about unemployment? W’s policies generated enough business to keep unemployment at lower levels than Clinton’s, even though W had to fight two overseas wars. The dissatisfaction with the economy has been generated by the media spinning everything with such a negative light. Once Obama is president, miraculously all the poor homeless waifs, wandering the streets without coats, will all disappear and be happy. Again, media spin will sanitize every action taken by the new president.
Just name a topic, and you’ll find that all those people who thought they wanted hope and change will now find that they now believe that President Obama is doing just what he ought to do. and all the imagined unhappiness, which was driven by NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/NYT/LAT/&c., will now be replaced by a glowing happiness and a determination to overcome life’s little obstacles (the same obstacles they faced before).
Until the transnational left’s control over the narrative is broken, I don’t see how Obama will experience any backlash, no matter what he does.
So, I’m an Eeyore. I don’t think I’m wrong, though.
