One year, Obama charisma decreased

By Suzie S Sudarman

President Barack Obama in the presidential campaign represents himself as a character as if conciliation has been made to create a balance and have the intuition that can unite and act as a leader and not a breaker healer.

However, a year later, President Obama deal with it very ironic, which is a major defeat in the election of Democrat Governor of Virginia, New Jersey, and Senator in Massachusetts, in addition to poll public opinion about him and the policies that tend to decrease.

According to the poll in The Economist, the United States (U.S.) still like President Obama, but not the performance. Columnist EJ Dionne (2010) explains this phenomenon as a failure of the liberals turned conservative narrative about President Obama, or others, such as Alvin Felzenberg (2010), a political science expert, said that the American people love Obama and his family, but now increasingly dubious competence levels.

The views on the fact the subject of conversation Political Science expert Aaron Wildavsky (1975) in the past. According to Wildavsky, Americans do not have a president, but he has two presidency (two presidencies); one which deals with domestic issues and others are more concerned with matters of defense and foreign policy. Usainya since World War II, President of the United States was more successful mastering issues concerning defense and foreign affairs than domestic policy control.

Wildavsky's view as a concrete example in one year tenure of President Obama needs a new balance. As where typically, each party in the U.S. has a policy preferences change very little and make it easier to adjust the president compared with foreign issues.

The development is now increasingly difficult world responded to the changes. Collective vision of world order that is still far from perfect and does not guarantee protection against major conflicts that can arise at any time between the forces of major powers in the world (the world's great powers). To establish a global order of the 21st century better, the U.S. continually seeks to form various circuits of cooperation. According to Zbigniew Brzezinski (2010), President Obama managed to redefine the world view the U.S. and state mengoneksi and strategy by the historical context of the 21st century that appears to be easy to overcome the challenges of the global geopolitical and other issues. However, because President Obama is expected to focus on the definition of big domestic issues of foreign policy, the U.S. was vulnerable in its implementation.

He did manage to boost the U.S. image in the world, but high unemployment in the U.S. also threatened his reputation as a moderate leader who could overcome the U.S. economic recession. Although it is too early to measure the success of President Obama would make a priority, there are some short-term urgent issues that can be used to test the ability and determination to reshape the American political paradigm and overcome its domestic economic problems.

Strategic Creativity

Clearly, the U.S. now need a program providing a solid job, not enough to simply focus on the problem of health services (health care). 787 billion stimulus package aimed dollars to stop the trend as unemployment reached 7.6 percent, now that number reaches 10 percent, so President Obama can not get out too quickly from the economic stimulus program. Another problem facing the Democrats is health care legislation has had on the public as karikaturkan by big government programs (big government) are going about high tax rates and would lead to defeat in the elections through November 2010.

As is the case with President Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR), President Obama inheriting the U.S. who are experiencing severe recession. Like FDR, President Obama finished his campaign with a promise to act decisively against the greedy bankers and confirmed the prospect of profits for a handful of people will no longer be able to dictate the fate of other people. However, Americans and then assess and suspect that President Obama is not really sincere because he needed campaign funds from Wall Street.

A year later, just after the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts, President Obama following up his promise and seeks to apply Jobs Bill (Law Employment Provision) in the form of stimulus legislation that includes tax deferred small business that provides employment and for those who seek make his home more energy efficient.

Themes budget restrictions will color State of the Union address of his in Congress. The deficit this year of 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars certainly increase the amount of national debt of 12 trillion U.S. dollars, and President Obama's plan for a bipartisan commission to recommend a reduction to the budget deficit by the end of 2010.

Anti tax

Even if President Obama promised reform U.S. capitalism, many people who believe that the progressive goal will not be achieved because of U.S. history shows the necessity of continuing activism organized trade unions and the unemployed in high levels in order to achieve a structural change. There will never be the legislation of civil rights that can be enacted without the existence of a mass movement that was effective.

In the reign of Obama's ironic that just the other managed to do the collection, calling itself Movement Tea Party (Tea Party movement) and to protest President Obama, the federal budget, a stimulus package, and the possibility of increased taxation in the future. The name "Tea Party" refers to U.S. history, the Boston Tea Party against taxation by the colonial British. And the acronym "TEA" is short for the word already taxed enough (is enough in taxes).
Suzie S Sudarman Chairman American Area Studies Center, University of Indonesia
(www.rainbowdiplomacy.com/Kompasdaily January 25, 2010/google translate)