Posted on 08/04/2009 6:16:15 PM PDT by LdSentinal
The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake.
The Prince William County real estate agent was sitting at a long wooden table covered with paperwork. Her clients, a young couple who had brought their 2-week-old baby, were finalizing a short sale on a townhouse that they were anxious to unload, even if it meant ruining their credit, because they had maxed out their credit cards trying to make the payments.
For Cleland, it was another example -- one of many this day -- of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different. Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and lift families such as the one sitting next to Cleland out of their economic funk. Instead, she said, Obama handed billions of dollars to banks that continue to "act like they're broke" and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class.
"He's just not as advertised," she said. "Nothing's changed for the common guy. I feel like I've been punked."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, lying, dangerous Marxist lunatics have a way of doing that to ya!
Punks get punked.
OOPS!
Yes...even on the tractor? I wonder if we could get acorn to register all the animals? Just think of all the votes!
“The Democrats are increasingly the party of idiots... Unfortunately stupid voters breed faster than informed voters. “
That’s the premise for the movie Idiocracy. everyone should have to watch that film and also read mark Levin’s book.
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