Much as President Obama has battled Republicans and even fellow Democrats during his administration, he’s faced an equally difficult opponent during his six-plus years in the White House: the expectations that he would fulfill the sweeping promise of change of his 2008 campaign.
Despite the frustration of disappointed supporters, the president argued in a new interview that what he has done will leave the country on a better path. The audacity of hope, it appears, has been replaced by the audacity of incrementalism.
“The trajectory of progress always happens in fits and starts,” Obama told comedian Marc Maron on his “WTF” podcast that was released Monday.