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
I voted for Palin as well. I accepted that she was the VP candidate and had to follow his lead to a point. But now she does not and mccain, like snow and collins, would only do damage to the conservative cause. There is no way she does not understand this, and yet she is volunteering to go out and personally ask people to vote for mccain. For me, that is not the act of someone I want to be POTUS.
Keep it up Sarah.
Hopefully Mccain becomes upset with Sarah and the whole idea of campaigning for him ends
You're so right and I am slowly coming to a determination with regard to their motives.
No he didn't. Loius XV did.
Ah but you voted for McCain. However Sarah is dirt because she’s supporting the man the threw her in the spotlight but you’re clean even though you voted for him. Thy name is Hypocrisy.
:-)
And for you anti-Palin 1%ers, we await your shrieking comments in 10........9........8........
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.
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Oh horrors!!Oh the humanity, She betrayed our trust? Oh the humanity!! NO!!!!!! /sarcasm/
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.
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Oh horrors!!Oh the humanity, She betrayed our trust? Oh the humanity!! NO!!!!!! /sarcasm/
Per your tagline, but which side are you on?
Well, then shut up already and go support Romney if he's more of your cup of tea...!!!
LOL.
On that day, they will call her Mrs. Palin.
It would kill them to call her Madame President.
Were I Sarah, I would insist!
President Palin or Madame President.
This is something one writes after Obama drops the ball not before.
As much as I’d like to be a purist and would love to have one in the White House, without the support of many of the entrenched Washington insiders no candidate has a chance to become POTUS.
If Palin came out and trashed McCain and the other good-ole-boys FReepers would cheer and slap each other on the back and any chance of her winning a national election would end right there.
“If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff” —Ronald Reagan
I’ll take that bet and counterwager that he won’t be able to wait that long, he’ll have to either through Gibbsy or Axelrod, attack Sarah from “Wasilly” in some way tomorrow!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I LOVE IT!!!! :-)
What choice did I have other then to not vote which would have been a vote for obumber. In that type situation I would still vote for even Palin. But if she follows through and campaigns for mccain, I certainly will not support her with my time or money.
Oh really?
She did one thing that you disagree with and you have a tantrum. You vote for him but she's wrong.
I hope McCain loses. But I won't discount Sarah for supporting the man that catapulted her into the spotlight.
From your post 30 I can see you are a rigid person.
Hey, that’s ok. I can’t take you seriously, either.
- JP
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