26 February 2009

Calling Obama Voters

I hate to wake some of you from your blissful, post-election slumber but could someone, anyone defend this:
So far, it appears that President Obama misled the hard left wing of the Democratic Party about where he was going to go on foreign policy - at least, judging by his picks for Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. But he did more than mislead Idahoans when he said, "I won't take away your guns." He lied to us.
Or this:
On Tuesday, (Obama) left the impression that we need merely end "tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans," and he promised that households earning less than $250,000 won't see their taxes increased by "one single dime."

Mr. Obama is very good at portraying his agenda as nothing more than center-left pragmatism. But pragmatists don't ignore the data. And the reality is that the only way to pay for Mr. Obama's ambitions is to reach ever deeper into the pockets of the
American middle class.
Or this:
President Obama, who took a no-earmark pledge on the campaign trail, is listed as one of dozens of cosponsors of a $7.7 million set-aside in the fiscal 2009 omnibus spending bill passed by the House on Wednesday.

No changes are expected to the earmarks requested by other lawmakers who ended up in top jobs in the Obama administration months after they sought set-asides for special projects in the bills that became the omnibus (HR 1105).

Obama’s name jumped out on a list of many earmark cosponsors because he and his staff have been so emphatic about his no-earmark stance.
Please - if you voted for Obama, defend any of this crap. You sure seemed engaged before election day. How about some honest engagement for the four years of the actual term?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

your kidding right? the hiphop MTV BET VHI morons who voted for this micky mouse candidate---pay attention to POLITICS? do you realize season 8 of American Idol is going on? do you realize The Hills is coming back? SEINFELD! rihanna getting beat up by Chris Brown. Air Jordan buying a house with his cubano princess?

oh jeez.....four years of actual engagement? come on.

he could straight up lie to their face and they'll vote for him no matter what. he doesn't even have to pander and try and buy their votes with creeping socialism, but he's doing it anyways.

you gotta hand it to the guy tho. No one really thinks about the fact that he is rich and is going to be taxing himself into the socialized "underclass" with everyone else...right?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1518064/what_me_earmark.html?singlepage=true&cat=75