I become. Why? I have been in a wait and see mode. Hold my opinion until his first State of the Union. Each day that goes by gives reason to not wait one year.
Since the election he and his team have been (as predicted) in the now manage expectation mode....with a message every single day that either paints things blacker (no pun intended) than they are....the economy is worse than feared....any fixes will take longer than expected....we might not be able to get out of Iraq as soon as promised...and on and on drones the negative catharsis.
Then yesterday he finally said the magic words "....we are just not going to be able to deliver on many of the promises made during my campaign...".
Maybe he is just setting up a sandbag stance....paint it worse than it is then any improvement that would have shown if no body was there can be claimed.
But I don't think it is that at all.
I reduce it to two causes. One most of the promises were just that...political rhetoric, never intended to be delivered upon in the first place (they all do it....what does the campaign have to do with anything after one wins??).
Secondly and maybe most importantly is, the closer he gets to the Office of the Presidency the more he and his team begin to realize the position of POTUS is not the all power, do anything I say and make it happen position expected. He and his team are learning that certain things just can and cannot be done as expected when the nose is only against the glass looking in.
Of course I did not expect everything to be fixed in one year. I do however expect to see progress enough to know he can deliver at least some of what was passed off to get elected.
My new conclusion after watching all the negative back pedaling is....it will be modus operendi for at least the first year, especially when he observes the stimulus checks and another bail out bunch of $$$$ do no more than the ones passed out under the Bush administration in 2008.
Then the political flip flop, to and fro, dodge and weave, lateral arabesque will be amazing to watch.

For the sake of the USA I do hope I am wrong, but I doubt it....first because he is a politician...second he is a lawyer (trained to use the letter of the law VS what is right)....third he is a neophyte going into a job that has daunted much more experienced President elects in the past.

I am truly disappointed at his strategy of backing off and negative preaching.

BTK