Barack Obama Inaugurates his Period in Office with High Expectative

By Sergio González

 Barack Hussein Obama inaugurated his historic presidency on January 20^th , as the 44^th president of the United States, becoming the first black president in the history of the country at the age of 43; pulling the eye of the world directly toward him. His presidency created a huge movement of hope across the nation, but also created great expectations on a government that faces huge challenges and the duty to reconstruct a super power.

 His presidency has filled people with hope, but this hope might be somehow suffocative to the new president, because hope brings expectative. Many people see it as the chance to finally close the wounds of the past, the wounds that slavery and segregation opened and the gap it created between the country’s population for centuries. Many fantasies and illusions are being put over the shoulders of this administration as it represents a new era in American history.

 The American population expects many changes in the government and its policies, but now the question is: Will Obama be able to create all the changes that are expected during his period? Yet, Obama faces more than hope and expectative, his administration will face a series of serious changes even before they can get to please the people, but there is where a new problem arises. Obama will have to fight to do some of the changes he proposes. He is trying to change the government policies, but the policies already on place are backed up by a lot of power and there is where Obama’s ideas will hit a dead end. You cannot please everyone, and certainly not when you are under the focus of the whole world. Obama now faces an economy that is crumbling to the floor, a war on terrorism abroad, and the highest rates of unemployment on decades. Obama has already proposed solutions to these problems, but now they will have to prove themselves effective. Obama’s charisma has fed the masses with hope, hunger for change, huger for action in the government, but will Obama be able to feed that hunger?  

Barack Obama pronouncing his inaugural speech on Washington D.C after a historical ceremony that officially named him the first black president of the United States.