From the Audacity of Hope to Audacity

When President Obama took an active role in the talks aimed at addressing the nation's debt ceiling, the tone he used to describe the closed-door negotiations (so much for transparency) was a marked departure from his campaign theme of "Hope and Change."

Now, since realizing that the buck stops on his desk, he is chiding, critical, and
quite pessimistic. ..[sic]...His first order of business in implementing a program of shared sacrifice was to reprimand Democrats and Republicans as though they were behaving like unruly, obstreperous children, in not agreeing to a plan that would put us deeper in debt.

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http://blogs.forbes.com/stevenberglas/2011/07/12/obamas-journey-from-the-audacity-of-hope-to-simply-audacity/?partner=contextstory