Kevin's Watch

Somebody had to do it. You know the media's not gonna keep tabs on them.

Jeez, I can't figure out where to start. The troops? The pork? The "reaching across the aisle?" The tax cuts? He broke his campaign funding promise before he was elected. What were we to expect?

Jackals?

Obama promised to not sign a bill before it had five days of public comment. He signed the SCHIP within hours of it being approved by Congress.

The lobbyists?

The "the economy is going to be my number one focus"...and then he leaves it to the porkus dorks to do it all

I think this topic is being covered in so many threads, it's hard to keep track. I'm glad we've now got one place to chronicle it. From one of Vain's links in the Column of the Day thread:

President Obama has had, by general consent, a torrid First Fortnight. To put it another way, it has taken precisely two weeks for the illusion that brought him to power to be exposed for the nonsense that it so obviously was. The transformational candidate who was going to sweep away pork-barrel politics, lobbyists and corruption has been up to his neck in sleaze, as eviscerated here by Charles Krauthammer. Despite the fact that he came to power promising to ‘ban all earmarks’, his ‘stimulus’ bill represents billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections -- which have nothing to do with kick-starting the economy and everything to do with favouring pet Democrat causes.

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I'm not sure this counts as a broken promise, but he did pitch the idea of Hope, yet now, he's claiming if the "stimulus" bill is not passed, the economy may never recover. In other words, America's best days are behind her.

Sounds more like a State of Fear.

Cool. I guess this thread now makes us officially fair and balanced.

If anyone doesn't like it, someone could start a "kept campaign promises" thread.

Cybrweez wrote:I'm not sure this counts as a broken promise, but he did pitch the idea of Hope, yet now, he's claiming if the "stimulus" bill is not passed, the economy may never recover. In other words, America's best days are behind her.

Sounds more like a State of Fear.

In one of Vain's articles in another thread, there was a quote from Mark Steyn I thought was great. Given that Obama is trying so hard to be the New Roosevelt with his new New Deal, I thought it was appropriate:

"The only thing we have to hope for, is hope itself."

Obama who ?

Ki wrote:Obama promised to not sign a bill before it had five days of public comment. He signed the SCHIP within hours of it being approved by Congress.

That would be this.

Ah, there you are.

--A