There is growing frustration, inside and outside the United States, with the Obama administration primarily because of its failure to bring about any measurable change in US policy, especially in the Middle East. Hopes are continuously raised, but have yet to be fulfilled.
The spirited American leader has moved crowds with his ideas, both at home and abroad, most recently during his current East Asia tour, but none of his ideas have materialised. This has led some to look for alternative courses, skirting American involvement, as hard as this may seem to be.
"While much attention has been paid to the feud between the [right-wing] Fox News Channel and the White House, the Obama administration is now facing criticism of a different sort from ... progressive hosts on MSNBC [a popular TV channel] who are using their nightly news-and-views-cast to measure what [Rachel Maddow, a liberal host] calls ‘the distance between Obama's rhetoric and his actions,'" the New York Times observed on Monday.