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Aug. 4, 2009 President Obama’s romantic tale with the US electorate and the global populous is now entering the sphere of hard-line testing. Reforms in the healthcare system and the economic stimulus package consist of the imperative component that most Americans dread: increased Government spending. The Financial stimulus has done very little to curb unemployment, encourage consumer spending or increase GDP output in 2009. Obama’s idealistic policies on a global scale such as environmental control have also clocked up significant spending patterns. Obama’s sweetheart relationship with the working class looks soon to hit a dead end curb with a sobering experience for those on unemployment aid. In the ever closing months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits. This will end what for some has been a last bastion against foreclosures, repossessions and destitution. This weekend the Obama administration has also had to concede that it will have to curtail some of its aspirations for healthcare reform. Already, Obama has abandoned his position on the proposed requirement that everyone have insurance, known as an individual mandate, and signalled a willingness to consider financing schemes, including tax increases that originally were not on his agenda. This will attempt to maintain Obama’s all inclusive social policy but at the political and electoral risk of raising taxes. The next phase on the Obama “change the world” campaign is the Middle East Peace Process. By Sending key negotiators to the region such as Robert Gates and George Mitchell, as well as a non negotiation approach with regards to Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, signifies Obama’s determination to finally conclude the roadmap peace plan once and for all. Unfortunately, Obama stills has to dance around the tricky diplomatic issue of creating and fermenting a two State solution in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu’s implicit understanding that economic independence and sovereignty is on the cards for the Palestinian territories but not an individually created self autonomous State.
With pragmatic considerations, Obama’s idealistic visions for both America and its International relations coupled with constricting purse strings and voter isolation means that Obama’s unique pledge on the environment, healthcare and messianic economic recovery and deliverance now hits the playing field in which the old adage comes alive: “putting theory into practice”.
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