I understand many were so anxious for President Obama to be a Savior or something, but they only deceived themselves; he's human. The mess left behind took at least two Republican ran presidential terms to screw it all up; it always takes longer to get it right than to do it wrong.
President Obama's plans to recover the economy naturally will take time, it may not show up for the average person for a number of years, but we do have evidence of some improvement. If the American people had watched past administrations as closely, maybe we would not have the so called blame game. Krauthammer's comments I found to be somewhat partial, although he sounds like he may have voted for President Obama and has now become frustrated with his decision.
We need to give Obama this time to mend fences and not to forget how or who really made this mess. Obama once said, "there's enough blame to share" meaning even before Bush a new administration takes over and instead of reviewing or rethinking what was done previously they create a whole new mess of problems and it goes on until everyone is drowning (rich kids are joining the military and the oil man's money is being tampered with) and when the right people are affected it gets better attention.
Krauthammer's statement and requoting Obama is inconsiderate and not entirely thought through fairly he says, "Obama was elected a year ago. He became commander in chief two months later. He then solemnly announced his own "comprehensive new strategy" for Afghanistan seven months ago. And it was not an off-the-cuff decision. Obama is obviously unhappy with the path he chose in March. Fine. He has every right — indeed duty — to reconsider. But what Obama is reacting to is the failure of his own strategy". This may be the case, but why would you expect anything different from a new president in these very difficult days; I would be more worried if he did not rethink his plan. Starting out in any new position things are likely to change; because noone wants a man without a plan he had his plan a very good one at the time. Once in office the picture is much worse or at least different than originally planned for. All these critics with great plans that was needed years ago when the war was to begin. Give the man a break noone really has a better plan it only appears that way because they are not in his shoes.
