Published in Maariv
(Israel) on 6 November 2010
by Nadav Eyal [link to original]
Translated from Hebrew by Viktoria Lymar. Edited by Heidi Kaufmann.
Posted on November 21, 2010.
When president Obama took his most crucial decision (to run for presidency) he should have known, and I’m sure he knew, that it slogans about change are not enough. Promises should be fulfilled, and since that is not so easy he should have known that criticism from his Democrat supporters as well as from his Republican rivals might hurt his party in the mid-term elections. And it did. Obama is not a sacrifice, as the article’s title says. He is paying for what he has done and for what he hasn’t done during his time in the White House. He should try to understand the origin of the public criticism and find the way to bring the American much more of the Change he promised in the 2008 elections. Maybe he promised too much. Maybe the changes can be done only in a slow pace, but this has to be said and explained.
When president Obama took his most crucial decision (to run for presidency) he should have known, and I’m sure he knew, that it slogans about change are not enough. Promises should be fulfilled, and since that is not so easy he should have known that criticism from his Democrat supporters as well as from his Republican rivals might hurt his party in the mid-term elections. And it did. Obama is not a sacrifice, as the article’s title says. He is paying for what he has done and for what he hasn’t done during his time in the White House. He should try to understand the origin of the public criticism and find the way to bring the American much more of the Change he promised in the 2008 elections. Maybe he promised too much. Maybe the changes can be done only in a slow pace, but this has to be said and explained.