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Posted on 01/25/2010 6:37:44 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.
Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.
Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.
More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?
Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.
- Sarah Palin
BOOM TASTE MY NIGHT STICK
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I notice she’s going after him more and more directly. You’re right, she’s in his face with this one.
Sarah Palin: Advisor to the Bummer!
So true, 9Year. ...So true.
Palin should get these excellent comments off Facebook and on to Fox, where she can present them live and in person.
Space is all that is in there, and maybe a telepromter so Soros can tell him what to do every minute of the day.
...When Palin speaks, the earth moves.
Yes I am married and if my wife betrayed me, her party and our country, as it appears Sarah is about to do, I would not support her ether.
Facebook is more available, and free of editing than Fox.
Sarah has made Facebook the Rostrum of political commentary, and is putting the Drive-By media out of business.
Media News just filed for Ch 11 bankruptcy, more to come; Facebook thrives.
The “Hair on Fire Crowd” can put this in their pipe and smoke it. This for Call me a Rino Crowd.
Really like how she mentioned the 411 speeches and 158 interviews. Emphasising his campaign promises, and how they were all broken, is also an excellent play. You know 0bama is going to be steamed.
Sarah has taken on all the major issues and Obama directly
with her Conservative answers to Obama and his socialist agenda.
No wonder some on FR have attacked Sarah Palin.
She attackes Obama which her attackers will
not do or very little at most.
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Can't wait till the MSM have to say "President Palin" = Mega WHACK!
Napoleon also said—and this fits Bambi—”Apres moi, le Deluge”.
Again, make no mistake, I don't like McCain. I voted for Palin. Who'd you vote for? Obama? If you voted for McCain/Palin, doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
The First Narcissist must have steam coming out of his ears right now.
If we could harness thant and generate power with it, ti would be the first productive thing this knucklehead has doine in his entire life.
Sarah just shifted the debate, right from her kitcjen counter in little ole Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,000.
She will be the President he could never hope to be.
Arlen Specter is probably whining that she’s not acting like a lady...LOL.
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