Monday, January 18, 2010

One Year into the Obama Presidency -or- The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Wednesday will mark the 1 year anniversary of Barack Obama being sworn into the office of the President of the United States.
Let's take a look back at some of the broken promises of the 'hope' and 'change' campaign.
The most outlandish campaign promise that was immediately broken, was the Obama guarantee of unprecedented transparency, including the promise of broadcasting health care reform negotiations on C-Span. So far that has not happened. Instead, these 'talks' have taken place behind closed (and locked) doors... Obama and his cronies are going to ram the monstrosity of a health care bill through, ignoring the fact that most Americans don't want it, and they are willing and able to use every trick in the book in order to do it.
We were also promised 5 days to look over and comment on all non-emergency bills before they were signed into law. This is almost laughable, I mean, who really believed that to begin with? Of course, we have not seen even one bill on the White House website that we have been able to comment on before it was passed into law.
Obama also promised that he would end the income tax for seniors making less than $50,000. That promise has completely fallen off of the Obama radar it would seem. He's had ample opportunity to enact this pledge, a year's worth of opportunity in fact, and yet he has done nothing. I suspect it will remain that way.
I could go on with more examples....
We're only a year into the Obama presidency and things aren't looking so dreamy.

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