His poll numbers are a vindication of the idea that, with the right leadership, Americans are mature enough to heed those words and not expect immediate results.
However there are some negatives amongst which she puts the Bank Bail out which she says had a
reliance on the bank-centric beliefs of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.
For the Guardian it has been a good start recognising that
Some of the many balls he has thrown in the air will come crashing down. But that does not invalidate the purpose.and concludes that
The Obama brand has done what it says on the tin and produced a leader of candour and vision. The real challenge of government still lies ahead, but for the moment he is simply the coolest politician on the planet.
The Telegraph believes that it is time for the President to end the campaigning and says that
there are worrying signs that the administration's method of operation will lead to failures further down the line. Mr Obama prefers the role of board chairman to chief executive. Yet, at a time when he has needed to build consensus behind his transformative plans, he has been hampered by poor appointments to his management team –
Those who say he is moving too slowly have underestimated the task says the Independent which says that
In part, this is because the hopes he raised were so high, especially among America's disadvantaged. In part, it is because the Republicans, still licking the wounds from their defeat, have spurned the cross-party co-operation Mr Obama favoured. There is no political unity on how to tackle the economy. But it is also because the ideological fissures, so deep during both the Clinton and Bush presidencies, were reopened by Mr Obama when he published the White House documents relating to CIA interrogations. His efforts to draw a line under this shameful chapter had the opposite effect. They polarised opinion and left him flailing, uncharacteristically, between two extremes.
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