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One campaign promise (or half-promise) was to pull out of Iraq. If he did something like this, critics like me would be silenced. Or if he initiated something like single-payer health insurance. Look at his actions. He has been back-tracking on almost every half-promise he made. Other than rhetoric, I don't see major differences between Obama and GWB on substantive issues of foreign and economic policy.
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You took the words out of my mouth. I can think of at least one thing he could've said in a major speech to the Muslim world that may have set the stage for a complete change of direction in American foreign policy and would've had me writing with caps lock on sprinkling exclamation marks everywhere also, but it didn't happen.
Again, what is this apparent universal ecstatic vibe he has ignited going to achieve for the Muslim world? Peace in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan? Detente with Iran? A fair and peaceful resolution to the Palestinian problem? No, all of these would require the will of the US to be at all feasible. Apparently as the President of the United Stated he doesn't have the power to influence these events and so he's hoping to change things by making millions feel warm and fuzzy. I'm assuming the givers of plaudits here have been inspired sufficiently to go to the occupied territories and lay down before bulldozers clearing land for more illegal Israeli settlements.