…and what he does:
1. “As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.”
2. “I will make sure that we renegotiate [NAFTA].”
3. Opposed a Colombian Free Trade Agreement because advocates ignore that “labor leaders have been targeted for assassination on a fairly consistent basis.”
4. “Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.”
There are a lot more broken campaign promises (I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and not call them lies) where those came from, and probably a lot more to come.
I just don’t understand why anyone believes anything he says. Must be something in the water.
[Update early evening]
Note, unlike many of His flock, I’m not complaining about him breaking campaign promises per se — many of them were awful, and I’m glad he didn’t follow through. I’m just sayin.’
I’m happy #2 and #3 were lies, but it’s quite worrying that the only predictor of what he’ll do next is ask “Which course of conduct will accrue more power to Washington, DC?”
Attend not to what the President says. Attend to what he (and his minions) do.
Especially since it’s not him but the teleprompter doing the talking.
it’s quite worrying that the only predictor of what he’ll do next is ask “Which course of conduct will accrue more power to Washington, DC?”
It wouldn’t worry me so much if that were the case if they were actually smart about it. I mean, the surest way for Obama to be re-elected, and for a Democratic Congress to be re-elected forever, is for liberty and wealth to come roaring back. You can give as many asinine overseas speeches as you like, you can indulge in any number of foreign policy stupidities, you can throw buckets of money down random ratholes from the teachers’ unions to green boondoggles, but as long as everyone has a job and the raises are coming in regularly, and the price of things is OK, you’ll get returned to power until you fall of your throne a dessicated skeleton, age 106.
Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that Team Obama are masters at selling but otherwise stunningly incompetent. Brilliant salesmen working for GM, so to speak. The “product” they’re selling, 1970s era social democracy combined with a little 1920s era inflation, are proven methods of economic suicide.
If my first goal was to destroy the Democratic Party in as thorough a way as the Civil War did, so that it would be two or three generations before people trusted them with power again, I could not pick a better route than to advise them to do just what they’re doing. Try this, boys. You’ll augur the economy into the ground so hard and thoroughly you’ll be lucky not to end up hung from lampposts.
Unfortunately, that’s not so good for the rest of us. So I don’t mind Obama’s cynical motivation. I just wish he knew what the f*** he was doing, even a little bit, and wasn’t such a total arrogant assclown he didn’t even realize he’s confidently doing a Wile E. Coyote run off a cliff.
I saw Chris Matthews on Jay Leno last night. Jay asked Chris to give a grade on the first 100 days. Chris only wanted to give a pass/fail. Jay admonished him and asked what kind of crappy school only give pass/fail.
So, Chris reluctantly gave ‘Bama an A-. A minus for the 13 trillion in debt he has racked. I’d think that fact alone would count a whole letter grade off at least. But he said he gets an A still because his approval ratings are so high. Particularly on the polling asking if we are heading in the right direction. He then said something about how this means no one is interested in going back to the ways of George Bush — to which the crowd cheered.
To me that is akin to driving one’s car while staring in the rear view mirror. Yea, you might have the satisfaction of seeing one crappy place disappear off into the distance but eventually you got put your eyes forward to see where your going.
Short pier.
But I thought Change was good. Surely, a lush, aquatic environment would improve your mood!