Concern-troll much?
First of all, tax cuts for the bottom 95% are still planned.
Yeah, when??? He said they would be a first priority. I plan to fly through the air like Superman, and even though I have put it aside, I still plan to do it. You will get your tax breaks right after I flay across the Pacific in a reda and ble suit.Check with the people of Illinois: He promised them tax breaks 10 years ago to get elected, and they got tax raises instead.
Secondly, while there is discussion of waiting to overturn the Bush tax cuts for the rich, this is actually recommended even by some very progressive economists right now, because the economy is in free-fall. The cuts will expire in 2010 and there is NO discussion out of the Obama shop of extending them.
Again, he said he woul overturn the tax breaks before they ran out, and yet again somebody made him change his mind.
Third, where do you propose he find experienced and knowledgeable people who can fill appointment seats if you propose he must avoid all of those who had roles in the Clinton administration? You think he should bring back 80-year-olds who served in the Carter administration? Or do you think he should do as Bush did, and fill the seats with ideological hacks and incompetent cronies?
He said there he would not fill his cabinet with Washington insiders, he has. I really don't care where he finds new blood as long as he does, but he won't, because his handlers will not let him.
Fourth, Obama never promised to take public financing--he promised to "enter a discussion" with McCain to reach an agreement on it. But more importantly, his campaign was consistent with the SPIRIT of public financing, which is to take politics out of the hands of the wealthy and level the playing field for ordinary people. With 3.1 million donors at an average of $86 each, Obama ran the most grassroots-fueled campaign in living memory, and probably in the entire planet's history.
Wrong, he flat out promised to take public financing, what channel were you watching. Nice spin, using the word spirit, do you work for Axelrod? Obama took ridiculous amounts of corporate money, try Exxon for example, over $300,000...
Fifth, I don't know where you got the nonsense about Iraq, but the 16-month timetable is still the Obama plan...more than that, the SOF agreement the Iraqi government is insisting on only goes a few months after that, so the troops ARE coming out.
Guess you missed the news the other day, the 16 month timetable is no longer the plan, the new plan is to TRY and remove some troops, with no timeline or deadline guaranteed for withdrawl. Guess what, Obama doesn't really have any say about that anyway, the people who control him do. Do you really think he makes up his own mind? LOL!!!
Sixth, he DIDN'T "disown" Jeremiah Wright. AFTER Obama's race speech, Wright went aggressively public with even more inflammatory statements, and Obama--rightfully--said he'd had enough. He first defended him, then placed his statements in the context of the complexities of race in our society, and only after all that, when Wright basically forced it on him, did he give up on him. That's not Obama's fault.
Wrong yet again, he said that he would never disown J W and Trinity after JW's "God Damn America" speech came out, that lasted 3 weeks before he cut all ties. Stop making excuses for him, he did what he did.
Seventh, Obama never had a hard-and-fast position against offshore oil drilling. He voted against it--pretty much a party-line vote--but his primary point on it has been that we can't drill our way out of the problem, and that remains his position. He's looking at appointing Raul Grijalva as Secretary of the Interior, who would be the greatest environmentalist at that position in history, more so even than Bruce Babbitt.
Oh come on, he flip-flopped back and forth on this so many times in a 2 week period that it was ridiculous, personally I lost track, is for or against now?
Eighth and finally, have you noticed he's not President yet?
Yes, that's my point exactly, 20 days later, and he has already backtracked virtually everything he said and promised. No surprise to me, I looked at his history, and his history is to tell the people whatever they want to hear, and then do whatever his handlers tell him to do, which is usually 180 degrees from what he promised.
Maybe before hitting that righteous-indignation pipe one more time, you could wait until the Obama administration has been in charge for awhile, and find out what happens. Oh, and follow the news, that would be good, too.
Why wait, I saw enough 18 months ago, he's the biggest liar I've ever seen, he makes Bush and Cheney look like angels.
I follow the news, and with brand Obama, it changes constantly, because what he says and then does never matches up. I also look at the old news, the news everybody else seems to forget after a few days. Try getting your information from different sources, instead of just listening to the news that you want to hear. The media has tried their best to cover for him, but they just can't keep up with him. Too much of the truth is still out there, and they can't change it all.
Orwell was right: "War is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength". Go read 1984 and Animal Farm again, we are living them right now. Obama is a puppet for the same people that controlled Bush, there is no difference except in your mind, which is exactly what they want.