Obama: The man who would be President

Almost from the unknown he rose. They crowned him President of the most powerful nation on earth and not much longer the laureate of being noble. Just on his words, just on his thoughts, for actions to come.

Almost two years have passed. There are no actions. At least none that you can see in action right now. For now, we have only more words. Only now the words- they too seem to be getting lost and meaningless in his own translation.

The President should know that he is no longer trying to be the President. He already is. That there's a time to talk and a time to do.

Remember, this is the President who disowned his Minister and his General for just the words they spoke which were beyond the dignity of a President to be associated with. Yet his own words today appear more rhetoric than ever and he does not give us any actions to fall back on. There are no more jobs, no more than a mere promise of a better and a lower cost of health for all in the future, no greater tolerance or peace in the world, no less the loss of lives in Iraq, definitely not when combined with the worsening situation in Afghanistan.

What shall be the ultimate undoing? The war on Afghanistan or a land beyond? The failure to revive the economy at home? The failure to bridge the increasing divide based on religion at home and outside? Perhaps still too early to say but the tell-tale signs are all there.

This President was crowned by people, educated people, knowing fully that he was neither God nor Devil. The only hope was that his words and thoughts were more than delusions of grandeur.

But for the fact that this is America and not 'Kafiristan', this tale, one can be sure is not headed to an end as horrific for which the American critic Edmund Wilson wrote "a parable of what might happen to the English if they forfeit their moral authority" referring to Rudyard Kipling's "The Man who would be King".