The Disappointment Was as Great as the Expectations

Published in El Mundo
(El Salvador) on 6 November 2014
by Editorial (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Henry Luis Rentas. Edited by Bora Mici.
Barack Obama's populist bubble dissipated last Tuesday, November 4, after suffering a forceful defeat to the Republican opposition. The burden of voter disappointment toward Obama is almost as great as the expectations and excess of promises that Obama has offered.

Obama is the U.S. president who has become a product of the media more than ever. He has taken advantage of social networks, gooey speeches, and a personal charisma that excited even a naïve international community, which awarded him an undeserving Nobel Prize.

Obama progressively became the antithesis of what he offered: a Nobel Peace Prize winner who makes war; an advocate for the legalization of immigrants who at the same time becomes the largest deporter in the nation’s history; a ruler with little implementation, who causes frustrations and pessimism in a nation accustomed to having a world leader. In addition, he insists on blaming the opposition for failures, as if he were some little tropical president. The U.S. president has abandoned Latin America, and swamped himself in inherited conflicts and new wars that have worn him out and have had few triumphs.

The American voters were intelligent and thought of the utmost interests of their country, and therefore looked for other paths.

Salvadoran voters should learn from this situation to avoid new media affairs with fabricated candidates: candidates without academic preparation, inflated egos that only cause pain to the nation, and whose arrogance and vanity disguise their inabilities that cost the county too much.


La burbuja populista de Barack Obama se disipó el martes al sufrir una contundente derrota ante la oposición republicana. La carga de decepción de los votantes hacia Obama es casi tan grande como las expectativas y el exceso de promesas que ofreció.

Obama ha sido el mandatario estadounidense que más que nunca se convirtió en un producto mediático, aprovechando redes sociales, un discurso pegajoso y un carisma personal que entusiasmó hasta una comunidad internacional ingenua que lo premió con un inmerecido Premio Nobel.

Obama se fue progresivamente convirtiendo en la antítesis que ofreció. Un Premio Nobel de la Paz que hace la guerra. Un abanderado de la legalización de migrantes que al mismo tiempo se vuelve el mayor deportador de la historia. Un gobernante con escasa ejecución y que provoca frustraciones y pesimismo en una nación acostumbrada a tener el liderazgo mundial. Encima, insiste en culpar a la oposición de sus fracasos, como si fuera algún presidentito tropical. El mandatario estadounidense ha abandonado América Latina y se ha empantanado en conflictos heredados y en nuevas guerras que lo han desgastado y tenido escasos triunfos.

El votante estadounidense ha sido inteligente y pensado en los intereses máximos de su país y por eso busca otros caminos.

El votante salvadoreño debería aprender y evitarse nuevas aventuras mediáticas, con candidatos fabricados, sin preparación académica, egos inflados que solo causan daño a la nación, con su soberbia y vanidad que disfrazan una incapacidad que cuesta demasiado al país.
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