Obama has been out psyched by the hawks. Obama came with the mantra of change. But what he at present doesn't realise is that there is an upper and lower bound to a succesful rate of change. Too slow and you don't live up to expectations, so you fail, too fast and you cause too much disruption and you fail. Too slow on some things and to fast on others, stokes ideas of incorrect priorities, bias .... Its all a balancing act, and to be succesful requires experience and sound judgement, these two things appear to be missing in the Obama camp at the moment. The hawks have understood this, so have psyched him in the media to go slow, when he should have gone fast and fast when he should have gone slow. The inexperience in his camp has allowed this to happen, which has short changed the American people. I don't know if he is up to the job, but if he wants to accomplish something, he better work out the game a bit quicker, deciding on his objectives and goals and then working out a plan to deliver on them at the correct pace. He needs to stop listening to the crowd, stop listening to the critics and get on with doing something that can deliver on change for the American people at an acceptable pace. At present he looks out psyched and paralysed with fear. He needs to get his act sorted out and deliveri for the people, not overly listening to the opposition, saying you don't want to do that, or you should be that. He actually needs to start being president and working for the people. Walking on the fence will inevitably lead to a mispalced foot and a huge pain in the end.