1. Promising to "publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days... before the President signs it," then breaking that promise over and over again.
2. Despite promising to keep lobbyists out of his administration, Obama has broken his word again and again (making 17 exceptions to this promise in his first two weeks).
3. Obama promised to eliminate income taxation for seniors making less than $50,000 a year. He has broken this promise despite numerous opportunities to keep it, including the economic stimulus package and his administration's first budget proposal.
4. The President also boasted during his campaign that "During 2009 and 2010, existing businesses will receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time employee hired," and has failed to keep his word.
5. Obama made it part of his agenda to "allow withdrawals of 15% up to $10,000 from retirement accounts without penalty (although subject to the normal taxes). This would apply to withdrawals in 2008 (including retroactively) and 2009," but didn't include this measure in the stimulus package or his budget proposal.
6. Obama broke his promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
7. Obama did a shameless 180 degree turn on earmarks by sharply criticizing them (and bragging that he would pass legislation without a single one) and then signing a spending bill with literally thousands of them.
8. Obama promised a $4000 tax credit for college tuition, but backpedaled when he signed a much smaller $2,500 college tax credit into law.
9. Obama called presidential "signing statements" (letters of interpretation and recommendations attached to Congressional legislation) unconstitutional... then attached a signing statement of his own to a $410 billion spending bill.
10. Obama promised a different tone in Washington D.C. and a move past bitter, partisan rhetoric. It took him less than a week as president to berate Republicans and sully the dignity of his office by picking a very public rhetorical fight with a private citizen, Rush Limbaugh.
11. In his first private meeting with Congressional Republicans, instead of "reaching across the aisle" and seeking earnest dialogue, he smugly told them that he should have his way because "I won."
12. The White House violated the custom of keeping private meetings private by leaking this comment to the press.
13. Taking a page out of the Bush Administration's playbook, Obama applied shrill, frantic, fear-mongering rhetoric to assure passage of his stimulus package.
14. Obama revealed the duplicity of his rhetoric and the arrogance of his character when he took off on a ritzy Valentine's Day vacation in Chicago for the weekend instead of signing the stimulus bill that he said needed to be passed as soon as possible to avert an irreversible economic meltdown.
15. Obama did not criticize Congress for its secrecy and closed-door committee meetings in crafting the stimulus package despite his calls for greater transparency in Washington.
16. Obama's appointment of Hillary Clinton to the office of Secretary of State was unconstitutional.
17. His movement of the United States Census out of the Department of Commerce and under the direct control of the White House was unconstitutional, politically motivated, and a dangerous, undemocratic expansion of executive power.
18. Obama's decision to continue Federal funding for religious organizations that discriminate on the basis of religion is unconstitutional and just plain unseemly for a "liberal" Democrat.
19. One promise Obama has kept is in his distribution of TARP II funds to non-financial institutions, which is contrary to the stated intention of those funds in the legislation passed by Congress, making his action illegal, unconstitutional, and an expansion of unlimited executive power.
20. Despite the buzz surrounding Obama's closing of Gitmo, indefinite detainment and torture are alive and well under Obama's administration with his chilling executive order to continue the practice of "CIA renditions" -secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to other countries where they are detained indefinitely and their interrogations are outsourced to other governments.
for the complete list
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/200...of-obamas.html
After 2 years - Here is Your Change
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by sundaydriver
before I believe anything of the sort. I believe somebody has misled you, Indy.
Like I said, worst resident in history. Thanks for proving why we are 15 trillion in debt, with a never ending policy of "invest" Obama's code for spend more. Oil? Are you kidding me, who has shut down over half the refineries in this country, who has blocked drilling, who has made us dependent on foreign oil. The foundation of individual prosperity in this country has always been cheap energy. Obama has shut down coal and oil, and in California we can't even avail ourselves to the mass amounts of natural gas and oil in this state. All this is laid at the feet of the invirowhackos on the left. Now who has blocked the building of clean nuclear energy again, using 1980 technology as the stick? Oh, and here's a good one, the first major solar project that was going to be a start of a new era of job producing clean energy has hit a road block, yep, the state has been shut down by another invirowhacko group, the same nuts that turned off the water to the fertile farmlands in southern Calif. over a smelt.We can go on all day about how the leftist have destroyed the state of California, Obama's model for the rest of the country. You idiots are letting the energy infrastructure be slowly taken apart, with out a single viable alternative. Just how do you propose to charge all those millions of Obama electric cars without an abundance of energy. Talk about being mislead, let me know how you like 10+ gas and out of control utility bills. The rest of your dribble will do nothing to help that situation. But hey, Obama approved drilling yesterday, kinda, it was just one spot. That should help
To bad Clinton made the decision not to drill, because we had an abundant source from the Saudis, and it would take ten years to see any difference anyway. We would be in pretty good shape right about now. Here's an idea, you don't shut down the life flow of the country until you have something viable to replace it. To bad millions are starving from the increase of corn prices so we can have non efficient engine destroying ethanol that costs twice as much and uses twice as much energy to produce with half the mileage of gas. Now run and find another huff-puff piece that disputes the truth. Because after all, Obama said you can't just set your thermostat at 72 degrees and think the rest of the world will be OK with it, Naw you should sit in the cold and freeze, or faint from heat stroke. And if you don't like it, he'll make dam sure by making it so expensive you won't have a choice. Well except for him and the rest of the elitists like Gore. Now go back to running around and yelling the sky is falling because of oil. Then go figure out how to carry ten bags of double priced groceries on the bus route two blocks from your house. Maybe you can start a grocery car pool. Because the rest of your rant is just Psychobabble compared to whats coming.
