Obama's people are asking Americans to "temper" their expectations for what he can achieve:

President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.

They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports...

Now on Obama's transition team, Reich worries about what happens after the new president is sworn in Jan. 20.

"We all have to be very careful about the expectations that we are putting on this man, our president-elect," Reich said. "If we all assume it's going to be the first 100 days, we're going to be disappointed."

The man who was Obama's chief campaign strategist is moving to lower expectations, too.

Nah come ooon now. These guys obviously have no hope!

I have hope! We can have change! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! YES WE CAN!

Isn't that precisely what the campaign was about? You're not trying to go back on the miracles you promised you can achieve, right?

After all, up to a few days before the election, Obama himself stood solidly in the rain and proclaimed "There's nothing we can't do", as this beautiful, musical, quasi-religious video so clearly demonstrates:

Come on, Barack! Get in there and kick some butt! We're all excited and watching you closely, and expect you to do what the evil Bush apparently could have been doing all along! We're DYING to see the secret formula!