Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, May 29, 2009 6:18:46 PM
Those not wooed by his dulcet baritone and Hollywood charm, and who actually
listened to what candidate Barack Obama was promising knew then that his message
of hope was fool's gold -- what the masses wanted to hear, but essentially false. Now
that America has endured his first 100 days in office, the reality of these bold
fabrications is coming clear.
Candidate Obama promised to end the war in Itaq almost immediately. Everyone with
a bare modicum of foreign policy, military, intelligence and political savvy knew this
was impossible. Today combat troops are still in Ieaq and will be indefinitely, and the
war in Afghanistan is becoming Obama's Iraq. Members of his own party are upset with
him. He promised the impossible precisely because he was a novice, with no real world
experience in being anything but a politician. On the stump one can promise the world,
and he did. But from the Ovsl Office things look quite different. This promise is
unfulfilled.
Candidate Obama vowed to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, and once
in office immediately signed such an order. Unfortunately, like the amateur he is,
he made the decision without a plan for accomplisging the task. Now congress,
including his own party, won't give him the money to do what he's promised. Not,
at least, until he presents them with a feasible plan regardig what to do with those
detained there. Another promise easily made that may never be kept.
Candidate Obama promised fiscal responsibility and an end to government waste.
President Obama has embarked upon an unprecedented and reckless spending spree
that threatens to leave the nation trillions of dollars in debt for generations to come.
He remarked recently that congress must pass his universal healthcare boondoggle
this year, or they never will. He knows that's true, because in another year the nation
will be so deep in debt because of his administration's spending that there will be no
way to pass it. Fiscal responsibility was the promise. Fiscal recklessness is the
reality.
Candidate Obama priomised even handed centrist government and government
full disclosure. Instead he and his minions have obstructed the investigation into the
illegal activities of ACORN, now being linked by the media directly to the Obama
campaign. His Justice Department has dropped charges in a case it had already won
against the New Black Panthers who were reported ny eyewitnesses brandishing
weapons and shouting racial slurs at voters in a Philadelphis polling place. Now
he has nominated to the Supreme Court one who fancies herself better qualified than a
white man for the poisition based on her race and gender, who ruled agaimst
Coonecticut firefighters denied earned promotions because blacks didn't outscore
them on the exam, and decided that the 2nd amendment to the Constitution applies
to the federal government, but not to state governments. It appears that people of
color may expect justice from this highminded administration -- as long as that
color ISN'T WHITE!
Candidate Obama promised lower taxes on those making less than $250,000
annually, and that seniors making under $50,000 would pay no taxes. President
Obama is pushing hard for an enormous energy tax that would affect all citizens,
is now considering a Value Added Tax (national sales tax) to pay for his healthcare
program (that would also affect all of us), and has not delivered anything on his pledge
to seniors. Say one thing, do the opposite.
Democrats will never admit it, but they have a liar for a leader. Unfortunately, the
country is saddled with that same liar until 2012. Someone said the other day that
a "Republilcan wave is building." That's wishful thinking. What's building is an
AMERICAN wave of resentment against endless tax increases, big government
intruding in every aspect of their private lives, enormous and irresponsible spending,
dissolution of American busines instituions and creeping socialism. That's the
stuff of which revolutions are made, and Republicans who have lost their way had
better take note of it as well. Most of all, the country is growing sick of lying leaders
like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and, yes, Barack Obama. The appearance of deceit
was his predecessor's downfall. Obama doesn't care, because there is no line he will
not cross, no promise (or law) he will not break and no one he will not silence or
trample on to get his way. His deceitfulness is truly audacious.