Obama’s 100 Days of Disappointment, Double Talk and Deception

Flopping Aces ^ | 04-29-09 | Mike

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He has squandered his chance to be a great president with attack on the right and knee jerk obedience to the left!

Wednesday, April 29 marks the end of Obama's first 100 days in office. All week long we can expect glowing tributes from the "news" media similar to the cheerleading we saw from them during the campaign. They seem to focus more on what Michelle Obama is wearing than what her husband is doing or more importantly, what he is NOT doing to address key problems in American economic, domestic and foreign policy.

To provide some counterpoint to media cheerleading the following list, in rough chronological order, reminds us all of how Obama has failed to live up to his campaign promises to be post partisan president who ushers in an era of cooperation and unity.

1. The first sign that things might get ugly during the Obama years came on Inauguration Day when the crowd, well below the reported two million people or the five million forecast, turned the National Mall into a trash dump. So much for a "green" Inaugural.
2. Obama supporters on the Capitol Grounds for the Inaugural boo President Bush demonstrating the level of class we have seen from many of them these first one hundred days.
3. Minutes after taking office Obama's official White House web site was up and running with the first official attacks on the Bush Administration which had showed such graciousness to the Obama's during the transition. It was a clear signal that Obama intended to use Bush for a scapegoat and that he had no intention of ending partisan warfare.
4. Obama's first major act was the signing of an executive order to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. The order was all show as it lacked any specifics on what to do with the terrorists many of whom have been described as "the worst of the worst" sort of killers. This order was an early signal that Obama intends to continue running a campaign against the Bush Administration rather than governing.
5. Obama also demanded that the military tribunals of terrorists be put on hold until he could study the issue. This judicial process had already been reviewed by Congress and the Supreme Court over a number of years and had finally reached the stage where trials could begin. Much of that work has stopped.
6. Obama overturned Bush era prohibitions on using federal money to fund abortions overseas and opened the door to harvesting embryos for stem cell research.
7. How many votes can $1.2 TRILLION in federal spending buy? Obama and the Democrats introduce an economic stimulus bill that focuses more on satisfying a 40 year wish list of liberal demands than any sort of recognizable bipartisan effort to address pressing economic needs.
8. Making it clear that he intends to dump his campaign promise to create a post partisan era, Obama tells Congressman Eric Cantor "I won... I will trump you on that" when Cantor requests a more bipartisan solution to the stimulus bill.
9. In the same meeting Obama signals the first attack on Rush Limbaugh telling Congressmen: "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
10. After campaigning against using fear as a political tool Obama unleashes the biggest scaremongering campaign ever to persuade Americans to accept his big government boondoggle masquerading as an economic recovery plan.
11. Despite telling the rest of us to go green to save the planet Obama turns up the thermostat in the Oval Office so that visitors are comfortable in their shirt sleeves instead of the jackets required when Bush was in office. Chief strategist David Axelrod said “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
12. Obama nominates Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury knowing full well the man he wants to put in charge of the Internal Revenue Service only paid $43,000 in back taxes when he was nominated. Senate Democrats call it an "honest mistake."
13. Nancy Killefer, Obama's nominee to be Chief Performance Officer in charge of making government more efficient withdraws her nomination after it is learned she has a tax problem too.
14. Senate Democrats briefly rally around former Majority Leader Tom Daschle who owed $100k in taxes for the benefit of a car and driver. Democrats called it another "honest mistake." Daschle later withdraws.
15. Signaling that cutting defense will be a top priority even while government grows in every other area Obama requests Defense Chiefs cut military spending by 10% in a White House meeting on January 30th.
16. Obama's order to halt terrorist trials at Guantanamo Bay results in charges being dropped against a suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Angry families meet with Obama one day later and want to know why?
17. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office announced that President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing.
18. Signaling yet another disturbing partisan move, White House officials let it be known they intend to control the census, which determines congressional district apportionment and federal benefits, from the White House.
19. Obama's State Dept. praises the vote in Venezuela which gives dictator Hugo Chavez the ability to become president for life.
20. After Obama bashed President Bush repeatedly on the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, any mention of the lingering problems in that disaster area disappear from Democrat stimulus bills.

[pankot]

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18 The Greeks called it “hubris”, as illustrated in “Oedipus Rex”.

[fortunecookie]

He has squandered his chance to be a great president with attack on the right and knee jerk obedience to the left!

But the left doesn't see that, nor do some on the right, and they would vote him in again tomorrow if they could.