Jim Lynch has a post up concerning the promises made by Senator Barack Hussein Obama and the reality of what Mr Obama has done as President. It’s worth a look, and Mr Lynch promises to be adding to it.
And it looks like Private Pigg has done the same thing, in greater detail, on PFB Blog.
We may be looking at a rotten four years as far as government policy is concerned, but I’m thinking that Barack Obama could be the most entertaining president ever!
Shorter Dana: It’s been three weeks since he inherited a country in crisis, and no utopia? What a failure!
Idiots.
Phoe: You do realize some of Barack’s promises were broken before election day, right? Or is your selective amnesia afflicting you again?
Pho: The United States is not in crisis. I’ve lived most of my adult life with higher unemployment, higher interest rates, higher inflation, lower GDP, lower home prices, a much lower DOW and lower deficets. I also haven’t seen this level of blatent corruption in federal office holders since the 70′s. The media’s biased attempt to create a crisis notwithstanding, our economy is in a contraction. Economies do that, expand and contract. I don’t care who is in charge every day can’t be Christmas. I had HOPED that Obama would have CHANGED the nature of his new administration to younger blood. Uncorrupted blood if you will. Instead he is recycling old party Dems who would be better suited to life in a federal prison than a cabinet post. Lawyers, lobbyists and liers are not change. All he needs to do is get rid of the tax cheats and I’ll be happy. Is it asking too much that our “leaders” obey the laws we do?
Phoe: Mr Obama may have been president for only two weeks now, but that does not mean he hasn’t already broken some promises.
The tax thing is almost hysterically funny. President Clinton had two nominees sunk due to tax problems concerning domestic servants, and President Bush lost one for the same reason. It’s not like there wasn’t some sort of warning that publicized tax problems could torpedo nominations.
And Tom Daschle supposedly knew about his tax problems last June, long before the election. Yet he wanted to get back into government just so badly that he couldn’t take his name off the table, couldn’t just say, “Look, this might not work out.” Then President Obama comes around and says that Mr Daschle has his absolute support — a day before Mr Daschle has to drop out.
Phoe: You do realize some of Barack’s promises were broken before election day, right?
I also realise that the so-called “broken promises” are pretty much nit-picky crap. I expect Obama has and will break promises – but if you’re picking on this sort of chickenshit while he’s attempting to deal with the much bigger problems Bush left him, you’re friggin’ pitiful.
Pho: The United States is not in crisis. I’ve lived most of my adult life with higher unemployment, higher interest rates, higher inflation, lower GDP, lower home prices, a much lower DOW and lower deficets.
Really?…
“State unemployment rates increased across the country in December, according to a Labor Department report released Tuesday that underscores how the recession has spared few industries or regions.
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“The pace at which this thing has spread geographically and through industries is remarkable,” said Charles W. McMillion, president and chief economist at MBG Information Services, a Washington research firm.
The widespread rise in joblessness has led to steep state budget cuts and exhausted state unemployment resources. [...]
The nation lost about two million jobs in the final four months of 2008, cutting across sectors from manufacturing to retailing and professional and business services. On Monday, companies from a broad swath of industries announced job cuts, including retailer Home Depot Inc., heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. and cellphone-service provider Sprint Nextel Corp.
Likewise, job losses have been geographically broad. The unemployment rate increased in every state and the District of Columbia in December.
Forty-eight states lost nonfarm payroll jobs last month, according the Labor Department. The exceptions were Louisiana, which is benefiting from the recovery from Hurricane Katrina, and the District of Columbia, which is cushioned by federal spending. Employment was unchanged in Oklahoma.
The recession has gone “from a housing-led downturn to an everything-led downturn,” said Christopher Thornberg, a principal at Beacon Economics, a research firm in Los Angeles.”