American Dream
The White House profile of President Barack Obama says that his story is the American story. The next year will reveal the new twists in that tale. The question in 2008 was whether America will vote a black man for the top job. It did. Now the question is whether the people will give Obama another term.
So far, no contender has shown political acumen and charisma rivaling Obama’s. But he has fallen well short of expectations on fixing the economy and his foreign policy has not been spectacular. He is unpopular with the American elite and his ratings in general have plunged from the highs of 2008-2009.
(This story appears in the 06 January, 2012 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)