Ah, the smell of managing expectations.

Let's say you are a member of the Bush Derangement Syndrome community, your world view is formed by what's called the Community Based Reality. You once had a brain and formulated this thought, "if Bush loses the War on Terror, the war in Afghanistan, and/or the war in Iraq, it won't be so bad because I can use that loss to support my hatred of the president. And even if we lose-lose this war, I'll still be safe and sound here in America." Years later, all that remains of your soul is the Gollum-like repetition of various anti-war tropes.

So, you put the No Blood for Oil bumpersticker on your car, you drone on and on about Gitmo and Abu Gharib. Your only goal on earth is contrarianly opposing every action that has been taken since 2003. The surge? You brainlessly answer it's been a failure. You also push hard for Obama because he understands. His hardest decision in his life was not voting to invade Iraq...when he wasn't even in the Senate.

So, here is Newsweek, lowering expectations on Gitmo.

4 reasons why Obama most likely won't close Gitmo.

Oh well, at least Obama still supports gay marriage. what, he doesn't?!? Why did the New York Times not tell people about that until after the election? Next thing you know, they'll lay the groundwork that he won't immediately abandon Iraq. Nah, he wouldn't do that. would he?

Anyway, the media's not saying, they're just saying. You know, he's not president yet, folks, and there's only so many promises that can be kept.