What got Obama in trouble in the first place were the extraordinarily high expectations that the nation had for his administration - and that Obama's campaign had encouraged....
[N]ow Obama's return to messianic status ... risks unlearning the valuable lesson in humility.
A more precise misreading of political circumstances is unimaginable. Obama now has an incentive to set expectations even extraordinarily higher; for when they encounter obstruction, the ensuing condemnation of the perverse obstructionists will be that much louder.
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