CNN is Catching On

How else do you explain this?

(CNN) -- In style and substance, Barack Obama is looking like he could be a different president than the candidate voters got to know during the campaign.

Barack Obama has taken on a more somber tone as he prepares to take office.

His message of changing the country has been replaced by one of repairing the country as he inherits crises that demand immediate action.

"I want to be realistic here," Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped."

And by the way, we never intended to do some of the stuff we campaigned on. No surprise here. Mr. Hope and Change never could have done all the stuff he promised, even if the economy had cooperated. However, it's interesting that CNN seems surprised by this.