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I get emails from Obama. Here is my latest response:

>This is the moment our movement was built for.

Yes, the destruction of the United States.

>Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a
>committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at
>the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country
>where people gather to talk about what matters most.

You won it by pretending to be something you weren't, by letting everybody pour into the empty buckets of "hope" and "change" their own peculiar meaning and believing you meant what they meant.

The difference between then and now is stark: You've spent more money than has every been spent in the history of any government and probably more than all governments combined throughout history. You've claimed that the spending had to be done immediately to put money immediately into the pockets of those who needed it, claimed that the job had been earlier than expected and "under budget" when only less than 10% had actually been disbursed, that the spending had done just what you expected it to (no doubt this is true), then claimed that you never said that the program was to have had immediate impact. You've helped to push through moronic crap like Cash for Clunkers and the Waxman-Markey malarky.

You've taken over General Motors and Chrysler and threw people out of work. You've told old people to take a pain pill instead of getting the pacemaker they needed. You've embraced the worst sorts of dictators around the world. You've bloviated incessantly on various international apology tours. You've said that "victory" was a term you really didn't like to apply to a situation like Afghanistan. You've promised transparency but have supported legislators who rammed bills through in the middle of the night and then did not allow enough time for people to read the bill and debate it. And on and on and on.

There is one kind of transparency now that wasn't evident to a lot of people before the election: now they can see through you.