You know the surest way to present yourself as an elitist? Mock even your party’s most loyal activists behind closed doors at a $30,000 per plate dinner.

Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get — to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an historic health care bill passed — oh, well, the public option wasn’t there. If you get the financial reform bill passed — then, well, I don’t know about this particular derivatives rule, I’m not sure that I’m satisfied with that. And gosh, we haven’t yet brought about world peace and — (laughter.) I thought that was going to happen quicker. (Laughter.) You know who you are. (Laughter.) We have had the most productive, progressive legislative session in at least a generation.

You know what, though? This is all his fault. I’m not kidding.

Obama set the outlandish expectations. He ran on being all about  hope and change. He ran as a semi-messiah who could fix all of the world’s problems with the snap of his fingers.

February 5, 2008:

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have so little, who’ve been told that they cannot have what they dream, that they cannot be what they imagine. Yes, they can.

On the night of his primary victory, Obama actually promised that the seas would stop rising.

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals. Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

The guy was promising that his primary victory would be remembered as “the moment” we began providing health care for everyone, homes for the homeless, ended a war, and stopped the rising of the seas and began the healing of the planet.

His electoral strategy was based on convincing hordes of upset, angry people that he would fix everything for them and fix it quickly. People were stupid to ever believe him, of course, but he did promise all of it to gullible people.

Now he wants to complain that these gullible people expected a quick resolution to the world’s problems. In fairness, they only set those expectations based on everything upon which Obama campaigned.