The Disappointment Was as Great as the Expectations

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.