Posted on 02/14/2009 8:51:26 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Shocking video of Obama campaign promises that he wantonly violated with this stimulus bill!
We were told by every love struck denizen of the Old Media that Barack Obama was bringing a "new" politics to Washington. He was, we were assured, a candidate that was post-partisan, post-racial, and anti-business-as-usual. We were told we could bank on his campaign promises and that he wasn't like any other politician.
Unfortunately, President Obama seems to have summarily dismissed the promises of candidate Obama, at least as far as this stimulus bill is concerned.
In a video of a 2007 campaign stop, candidate Obama promised a number of things. He said no pork would be allowed in any bill he signed. He promised "no more secrecy" when he became president. He said all bills would be on-line for five days so that the people could see what was in it. He spoke against lobbyists as if they were the bane of politics.
OK. Now he won -- I know this because he likes to remind us of that fact. But I am left wondering exactly when Barack H. Obama decided to turn against Barack H. Obama? I ask this question because of this particular video, one that pertains specifically to this so-called stimulus bill.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Does anyone really think that dictators do what they promised? Nothing to be surprised about here.
Abortion….hardly worth the trip….Laddie..... Truth and trustworthiness are NOT in THE ONE!!!
Ummm... Bill Clinton did the same thing in 1992. Nothing new here.
But this is such an extraordinary situation with so very much to lose if we don’t act quickly etc etc etc - insert your own rationalization here - that it’s perfectly fine, in fact it’s required that he break any promises - or law for that matter (remember the tax cheat whom we simply had to approve as Secretary of the Treasury) - in order to save us all - these people have an excuse for everything.....
There is absolutely nothing that is honest, real or genuine about this man. I thought we had jumped the shark when we elected Bill Clinton TWICE. Wrong. Obama makes Clinton look like a saint.
Like Bill Clinton, he has a knack for knowing when people will buy into his lies.
Promises are only saying what’s needed to be elected.
truthfully,i can hardly wait for impeachment proceedings for this clown.
they are on the down road he is travelling...........
:) :) :)I don’t believe there is any success with this admin
one way or another. he’s just that puppet that Soros financed and the Bilderberg Group put in to re-arrange our life here in the US according to their whims and wishes & getting us ready to accept the amero/yuck!
Today in WSJ:
Candidate Versus President Obama
The editorial “The Missing Obama Tax Cut” (Feb. 10) is right on.
Candidate Barack Obama proposed eliminating the capital gains tax on the sale of stocks by small businesses and start-ups. He seemed to understand that job creation involves risk-taking investments, that small businesses create most jobs, and that the tax code should not discourage such job creation.
President Obama’s Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate have spent weeks discussing how to get the economy moving again. Yet the Democratic leaders of Congress chose not to advance the elimination of capital gains tax for small businesses in their economic stimulus packages.
I tried to amend the Senate bill with candidate Obama’s proposal, but the Democratic leaders shut out almost all amendments from my Republican side. For those Democrats, a Republican association is the death knell for any proposal, even one from the Obama campaign.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa)
Washington
BO will continue to ‘get away’ with anything because of the deteriorating economy.
This five day rule is hype and Obama’s transparency on pork is a joke.
He signs it Tuesday, the conference report on the bill was posted Thursday. It was signed on Friday. As the writer reports what is the five days going to do.
Is he going to CHANGE (there is that word again) it if someone on the “fifth” day Pacific time says hey Obama there is a problem?
Also you can track the pork at recovery.gov. That way you can see if Reid gets his train set from Los Angeles to Nevada.
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