Barrack Obama: Fraud, failure, or folly?
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While many have been attacking Obama since the day he started campaigning for president, I have publicly tried to give him ample time to prove himself. Now that we are a year from the day that he was elected by popular support of his “change to believe in” platform, I think it is time that critical analysis take place. I was not thrilled with the choices we were given back then and still not impressed with the “stacked deck” that voters are given to play with, but I’ll leave that topic for another post.
The right-wing pundits and many media outlets have been, and continue to be, relentless in their demonizing of the forty-fourth president. According to some he can’t do anything right, including the over-sensationalized loss of the Olympic bid. When the administration finally decided to fight back, even the “liberal media” decided against him by taking the side of Fox news.
I recently received an email about a poll at NPR that explained how Fox news was losing its war with the president and how we should show them how we feel about “honest conservative reporting”. I looked into the poll the day I got the email and found that it had apparently been quite effective at attracting conservatives. In the letter it stated that Fox was losing with Obama 71% favored, and that the administration was sure to use the poll as support for his attack on Fox. By the time I was aware of the poll and had voted, Obama was losing by a landslide, something in the neighborhood of 80% for Fox. The website commented on how the poll wasn’t meant to be scientific and was only intended to spur debate….. But I wonder if they noticed how easily it can be manipulated by casting multiple ballots. I could now go off on a tangent about the ownership of the mainstream media and how public opinion is molded on a minute to minute basis, but there again is a topic for another post.
This post is about Barrack Obama and his campaign promises. While he has apparently upheld more of his promises than he has broken according to the Obameter at PolitiFact, (they only list seven broken promises as opposed to twenty kept), there are ten points I would like you to consider in particular. After having watched the two films from InfoWars that I posted on the videos page, I have been pondering about the successes and failures of the Obama administration, as well as the promises it has broken. Richard watched the films and typed out nine bullets about the administrations broken promises, I added a tenth just to make it even…..
1. He originally said he would begin withdrawing our troops from Iraq immediately. Now there are plans for leaving many of them there indefinitely.
2. He originally said he wanted to repeal the Patriot Act. But then he helped reinstate it.
3. He originally said he wanted to stop illegal wire tapping of the conversations of Americans using their telephones and the Internet. Then, as president, he approved it.
4. He originally said he wanted to stop retroactive immunity for the telephone companies that facilitated spying on Americans. Then, after becoming president, he granted it, thereby granting them retroactive immunity from prosecution.
5. He originally said he would, as president, renegotiate NAFTA and GATT, to make them fair to American workers. Then, after being elected, he had his staff sent out memos to corporate leaders saying that this was just campaign rhetoric. He told Canadian leaders, who had reason to worry about this, the very same thing.
6. He originally said he would have no former lobbyists in his administration, but then turned around as president and appointed many of them to top positions.
7. He originally said he would as president stop the practice of rendition, but as soon as he was elected he made it clear that he was in reality going to continue with these secret arrests and the transfer of these and other prisoners to secret prisons around the world, where they can presumably be tortured in secret and do not have any access to an attorney.
8. He said he was upset by the bailouts of the big banks, but those bailouts were to some extent engineered by his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
9. Before being elected, he said he was all in favor of transparency in government, yet the Federal Reserve continues to be controlled and owned by bankers who meet in secret and share no record of their meetings with anyone — not with Congress and not with the American public. Meanwhile, $8 trillion has disappeared from the US Treasury and no one knows exactly where it went. Neither will Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke tell Congress where exactly the Fed has sent its trillions in expenditures.
10. During his presidential campaign Obama said his administration would not follow in the footsteps of G.W. Bush by using signing statements as “a way to do an end run around congress”, and yet he has done exactly that…. repeatedly. Here is a prime example: A five-paragraph signing statement added to the June war spending bill, including a final paragraph that outlined his objections to at least four areas of the bill. The Obama administration announced in the statement it would disregard provisions of the legislation that, among other things, would compel the Obama administration to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards and require the Treasury department to report to Congress on the activities of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
I encourage you to watch the videos, do some research on your own and consider these points. Maybe it is time to stop “dithering” over birth certificates and false claims about the healthcare debate currently distracting the masses from reality, and start taking a harder look at recent presidents, the Neocons and NeoLibs, and the oligarchical collectivism that passes for American politics today. Turn off the TV and start your own investigation, use your search engines to look some of this stuff up, don’t be afraid of learning more than you want to know. Above all don’t accept the party line, regardless of your affiliation, because if you look deep enough you just might find that there is only ONE party…. the Corporate Party.
Here are some random links to help get you started:
A living diary of the Obama presidency – Politico 44
Obama racks up list of broken promises – World Net Daily
Obama’s Broken Promises – InfoWars
Obama’s broken promises – American Thinker
1 Year Later-Obama’s Legacy of Lies and Broken Promises – Opposing views
Obama’s Broken Promises: Higher Taxes, Massive Debt – Newsmax
