Posted on 03/16/2009 8:19:50 AM PDT by Sasparilla
"We're here to infuse the old Washington politics with a new sense of mission - to unite people around a common purpose. To rally Americans around a common destiny. We aren't just here to win an election. We are here to transform a nation." Transformation, indeed. No President has acted faster to do a complete reversal on campaign promises and positions during the campaign than Barack Hussein Obama has in the first two months of his presidency.
His popularity polls have been falling on the correct impression that America is instinctively feeling of his incompetence, lack of direction, and move toward directly to a socialist state. He has reneged on his claim that he did not want to take American firearms. He has rushed to sign bills after promising no to. He now wants to tax health care benefits. He now likes earmark pork. He has dropped charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole. He is closing Guantanamo. He is ending coercive interrogation techniques that work. He has shown himself to be soft on terrorism.
Obama, Sept. 9, 2008: I don't want any misunderstanding when you all go home, and you're talking to your buddies, and they say, "he wants to take my gun away." You've heard it here; I'm on television, so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away. There are some common-sense gun safety laws that I believe in. But I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don't use that one. It just ain't true...
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