Posted on 08/04/2009 6:16:15 PM PDT by LdSentinal
The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake.
The Prince William County real estate agent was sitting at a long wooden table covered with paperwork. Her clients, a young couple who had brought their 2-week-old baby, were finalizing a short sale on a townhouse that they were anxious to unload, even if it meant ruining their credit, because they had maxed out their credit cards trying to make the payments.
For Cleland, it was another example -- one of many this day -- of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different. Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and lift families such as the one sitting next to Cleland out of their economic funk. Instead, she said, Obama handed billions of dollars to banks that continue to "act like they're broke" and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class.
"He's just not as advertised," she said. "Nothing's changed for the common guy. I feel like I've been punked."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
All of this "he was supposed to be for the little guy, but he hasn't proved it yet" bilge is nothing more than blatant advocacy journalism from Ms. Somashekhar --- advocating that the Kenyan Clown push even harder to the left.
Exactly what do you mean by that term Chris Ann? Surely, you don't mean.....uh, never mind....
The only thing that will fall harder than middle class America under obama will be the msm’s credibility with middle America.
A multi-prong attack with a pincer movement to cover any retreat to the enemy and to top it all off..we bomb their latrines!
We will not forget what the left did to Sarah Palin, we will not allow free speech to be silenced, we will TAKE BACK AMERICA.
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Stupid moron. More proof that basic intelligence tests should be a requirement for voting.
As far as I am concerned they can all go to hell. I don’tcare about their remorse. They should have thought before they voted for the sob.
I hear you. I know a couple who I thought had good sense until they announced they were for 0bama, because he was going to stop the war and give them free health care. I haven’t spoken to them since.
Virgina Poll: 14% of Obama voters will vote Republican for Governor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2304967/posts
Sadly true. Lots of gullible people got caught up in the wave.
Your reference to the Peron era is really interesting...I'm thinking of picking up a biography. Have you a suggestion?
yeah that might be happening on a larger scale as obama realism unfolds.
No shit! I wonder how many of those suckers will come to realize how dumb they were to be taken in by the Liberal Messiah.
Now don't you think that's a little harsh?
Damn right it is! I love it!
Wait until the idiot union coal miners get their portion of the obama pie — cap and trade! Enjoy the unemployment because your business is too “dirty”.
The president will make his first appearance in the [Virginia Gubernatorial] campaign Thursday, when he headlines a fundraiser for R. Creigh Deeds (D) in McLean, in part to try to help the state senator from Bath County win over wavering Democrats such as Cleland.
Anybody in VA teaparty, VA Freepers, other patriots reading this who can find out the particulars of this McLean, VA Dem fundraiser, and rustle up a Freep of the event?
Pinging some DC area Freepers who may be interested, or who can spread the word to other interested parties.
Welcome to the party, pal. Where the hell has your common sense been all this time?
B.S. Chris....!!
All you had to do was read his book, study his life, and you should have known exactly what he was all about.
That's what happens when you let Government Media tell you the "news"........
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