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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Another expired Obama campaign promise
Even the NYT is starting to notice the trend in the Obama administration to break campaign promises:
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised that once a bill was passed by Congress, the White House would post it online for five days before he signed it.
“When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing,” Mr. Obama said as a candidate, telling voters he would make government more transparent and accountable.
When he took office in January, his team added that in posting nonemergency bills, it would “allow the public to review and comment” before Mr. Obama signed them.
Five months into his administration, Mr. Obama has signed two dozen bills, but he has almost never waited five days. On the recent credit card legislation, which included a controversial measure to allow guns in national parks, he waited just two.
Various watchdog groups have slapped Mr. Obama’s wrist for repeatedly failing to live up to the pledge. Politifact.com, the fact-checking arm of The St. Petersburg Times, has branded it a “promise broken.”At the same time, many have questioned the value of the promise, saying it was too late in the process for anything to change in a bill.
“There isn’t anybody in this town who doesn’t know that commenting after a bill has been passed is meaningless,” said Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group dedicated to making government more transparent.
Now, in a tacit acknowledgment that the campaign pledge was easier to make than to fulfill, the White House is changing its terms. Instead of starting the five-day clock when Congress passes a bill, administration officials say they intend to start it earlier and post the bills sooner.
Jim Geraghty responds:
A lot of politicians break promises. But the Obama campaign took this to a new level by making promises and clearly not bothering to look into whether they would be easy or hard to keep. Obama deserves a half a point for using the “now, we know this will not be easy” line in almost every speech, but a major theme of his campaign last year was this assertion that the only obstruction to many great policy outcomes was a lack of will; all we needed was a president who was determined to make it happen, and Abracadabra! – more accessable, more transparent, more responsive government. (“Yes, we can!”) And now, we find… no, the world, and government, is a bit more complicated than that.
What? You mean he’s not a miracle worker after all? I’m so disappointed.
Related to all this, Michael Barone blasts President Obama in a piece this morning where he discusses Obama’s Chicago Way-style of governing. Make sure to read the whole thing.
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I don’t believe he ever really intended to do half the things he “promised”. Obama will tell anyone anything he thinks will get his vote (or votes in the case of an ACORN member).
The NY Times seems to think that he failed to keep the 5 day review pledge because it is difficult. I think the reason is that he really, really doesn’t care. To Obama a promise is not something to be honored – only a tool to get elected.
As noted in the article, once a bill is passed it’s nearly meaningless to set up a review of it.
So what value was the campaign lie? Absolutely none, even if he wasn’t a girly-man and had kept his “promise”.
But it would be nice if, especially on the money bills, they were printed up in time for the congresscritters to read them (if they even care, or, in the case of a couple of prominent congressmen, can even read).
“White House officials suggest the president’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken literally“
When I was a police detective I had the habit of standing in a crime scene trying to understand the question “why” pertaining to the crime. Others lifted prints, or canvassed for witnesses (I did also), but the first thing I did was to study the scene. What did I see, what didn’t I see? What did the bad guy see that made this his target? Why here? Why now? Why this way?
When studying Obama, I brushed aside his words and watched his actions. I saw what he did, and more importantly what he was willing to do. I asked why? Why work so hard? Why assemble the group he did? Why was he willing to say and do practically anything to get into office? He did much more than others (HRC was timid in comparison) and certainly much more than McCain.
The answer is power. Now that he is in, he and those around him can control the fate of the nation. They control the money, they will soon control the health, and soon after that, unless he’s stopped, they will control your futures (retirement, education, career choices).
So, when I see that he has broken another promise I don’t even react. Of course he did. The promises were just tools to get him where he really wanted to be- Standing over you.
No doubt I thought this when the door knob said it. Seriously is anyone really surprised that he is breaking promises hand over fist??
rwisher is absolutely correct too. Thanks to deceptions like this we now have our 1st Kenyan dictator, and being a lying megalomaniac is all part of the personality. America is in such deep trouble, I don’t know if we will be able to turn it around in 2010. – Lorica
Sure we can turn it around, Lorica, just like the Iranians did, with the same vote counters, undoubtedly.
His “HopeNChange” was all about him, not the voters, not the down-and-out, not the unemployed, not anyone except him.
Lorica, you are absolutely right so why all the brain-washed slobbering fools who adore and worship this narcissistic Marxist idiot? He is a disgrace to the office and will be dictator if left unchecked.
The way his “HopeNChange” express has been plummeting in the polls lately he may become the most unpopular prez in history, outdoing even the great Satan W. And that’s just in his first 150 days!
Looks like people may be wising up to the fact the guvmint can’t print all the play money it wants to buy votes.
Now, if we could also translate that unrest to the donks and ‘phants who are voting for all this imaginary “stimulus” (only a backroom term for political payoffs, it seems).