There is a limit on how much reality one 'creates'
Barack Obama has accomplished things that most people can only dream of. He was the first African American to assume the presidency and served for two terms."
Obama is male, highly charismatic, attractive, intellectual, intelligent, has deep emotional intelligence, a dynamic inspirational speaker, workes incredibly hard, and had many advantages growing up, including going to an excellent private school with classmates whose parents were judges and lawyers, then went to very prestigious universities, where he learned from and connected with powerful, influential people who recognized his gifts. Certainly all those things are indicators of potential high achievement for someone in any race, and if anyone was going to be the first African American POTUS, he was certainly among the top ten. The circumstances surrounding childhood and early adult live were extraordinary by any standard. He didn't get to be POTUS by the power of positive thinking alone, and no one should expect to accomplish anything by simply dreaming that it's possible. Nor should they expect anything to become real simply because they are "intending it." Other people's actions are not within our control.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
Obama was not talking about personal reality that one 'creates,' after all, no one person's positive thinking is going to 'manifest' the GOP suddenly deciding to what is right. He was inspiring people to not give up, he wasn't telling them to trash other people who are making change in ways that we can't, for not producing the results that we imagined they should.
Change comes when we work for it. Change comes when we have a clear idea of what tools we have at hand, and don't waste time complaining about what isn't within our reach just yet. Or attacking others when reality isn't measuring up to our dreams.
