Can Obunga be re-elected on broken promises?

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....Do you remember when President George H.W. Bush made the promise not to raise taxes ("Read my lips: No new taxes") but unfortunately was talked into raising taxes and it cost him in his bid for a second term?

If President Bush No. 41 could lose a re-election by breaking one promise, how can President Barack Obama win a second term when he has broken a truckload of promises?....

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.....--"Today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office." (Spoken at the opening of the fiscal responsibility summit, Feb. 23, 2009.)

--"We will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov." (Spoken in a speech Jan. 28, 2009.)

--"There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means, and we're going to have to make some adjustments. Now, what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut." (Spoken during a presidential debate Oct. 15, 2008.)

--"We are going to ban all earmarks." (Spoken at a news conference Jan. 6, 2009.)

--"Instead of allowing lobbyists to slip big corporate tax breaks into bills during the dead of night, we will make sure every single tax break and earmark is available to every American online." (Spoken on the campaign trail in June 2007.)

--"Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase -- not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." (Spoken in September 2008 at a town hall meeting in Dover, N.H.)

--"(I) will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors -- saving them an average of $1,400 a year -- and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all." (From Barack Obama presidential campaign fact sheet in 2008.)

--"(My plan) will not help speculators who took risky bets on a rising market and bought homes not to live in but to sell." (Spoken to an audience in Phoenix on Feb. 18, 2009.)

--"(Lobbyists) won't work in my White House." (Spoken on his Iowa bus tour Dec. 15, 2007.).......

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[+3] - Frank Apisa - 06/19/2012[quote]If President Bush No. 41 could lose a re-election by breaking one promise, how can President Barack Obama win a second term when he has broken a truckload of promises?....[/quote] Easy....

@gungasnake,

Yes.

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@maxdancona,

Not according to some of what I read coming from better educated dems...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ten-reasons-why-Mr-Obama-by-Herbert-Calhoun-120617-888.html

and then Rob Kall, OpEdNews:

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Will the Democrats wake up in time to realize that Obama put's the Democratic control of the White house at risk? it's not too late for a convention decision to replace him, or even for the biggest financial backers to talk him out of running. Of course, that's pie in the sky fantasy talk. And even if he did step down or if he was replaced, it would almost certainly be with another corporatist figurehead. Still, Henry Calhoun's article gives one reason to pause...

I'm assuming there's some sort of a shot at dems throwing Bork Obunga under the bus and running somebody else.

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....5. Under Mr. Obama, the Wall Street Criminals have not just gotten off scot-free, but also have gotten another free ride on the Merry-go-round of America's Casino capitalism.

A litmus test for most voters, including independents, has been to see what this President would do to crack down on the criminals on Wall Street, meaning those responsible for the great crash of 2007-8. It does not seem that Mr. Obama has passed that test? What the American people saw did not inspire further confidence in Mr. Obama's leadership qualities, and at the same time, called into question his chummy relationship with the architects of that crash. Again we get to see him play the Obama shell game: On the one hand he supported and passed limp-wristed legislation that he touted as historic, while on the other hand and in the background and in the backrooms of K-Street, he made sure that the legislation contained enough loopholes to drive a Mack truck through and thus keep his Big Dog Wall Street contributors happy -- the American economic system be-damned. Now he is banking on the fact that we will see Romney as potentially much worse? But since we were wrong about him we could also be wrong about Mitt.

Also, it certainly did not help Mr. Obama's cause that the leaders of the gang of four, the real architects of the financial crash, landed with their feet firmly planted inside his administration, holding down all of the most important and the most prominent positions within it. But even more importantly, as the recent three billion dollar lost by Merrill-lynch (because of more Wall Street Casino gambling with investor's money) revealed, the Obama legislation designed to close the floodgates that allowed the crash to happen, seem uniformly inept and ineffectual. Glass-Steigall was not restored, credit default swap continue as they did before, etc.

There are few people who do not believe that as a result of Obama's weak legislation, and his weak commitment to fixing the holes in our financial infrastructure, another crash is just around the corner. Worse yet, no one on Wall Street has gone to jail. And even with their 800 billion dollar bailout, it is business as usual back on Wall Street, with Main Street still on life support and obscene bonuses still flowing in the banks that are still "too big to fail -- all under Mr. Obama's careless watch. And to add insult to injury, Mr. Obama failed to stand behind Elizabeth Warren, a proven warrior in the fight against Wall Street corruption. Even many Republicans were rooting for her. ....

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What these leftists are noticing, is that Bork Obunga is not doing any of the things which even to a halfway rational leftist would appear necessary to FIX the system. He's essentially behaving as if his goal were to bring the system down, which to my own thinking appears to be the case.

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Another futurist who sees Obunga off the ticket in November:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/why-bill-clinton-is-saying-the-things-hes-saying/

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Is this why R$ says nothing?

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@gungasnake,

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If President Bush No. 41 could lose a re-election by breaking one promise, how can President Barack Obama win a second term when he has broken a truckload of promises?....

Easy. All he has to do is get more electoral votes than his opponent...and he wins a second term.

Frankly, I do not think it will happen. I intend to vote for him...and I will do so with enthusiasm. I think he deserves my vote.

But I suspect he will be a one-term president because he has been deserted by his base...a leftist extremism that makes righty extremism look relatively benign.

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@Frank Apisa,

What about the House? Nancy Pelosi said a few weeks ago she thinks there's a better than 50/50 chance of retaking the House (a net of 25 seats is all that's needed). Too early to tell yet?

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@Irishk,

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What about the House? Nancy Pelosi said a few weeks ago she thinks there's a better than 50/50 chance of retaking the House (a net of 25 seats is all that's needed). Too early to tell yet?

Irish, I am very, very pessimistic about this next election. In my opinion, the best way to describe the far left is...it has gone insane. I see the extreme left doing more damage to Obama and the Democratic Party than the far right or the Republican talking heads.

I hope I am dead wrong, but I would not be surprised to see a Republican blow-out in November. Nancy Pelosi is daydreaming here.

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@Frank Apisa,

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I intend to vote for him...and I will do so with enthusiasm. I think he deserves my vote.

Why would you want to do something like that to your own country?

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@gungasnake,

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Why would you want to do something like that to your own country?

I guess that was meant to be cute, Gunga, but it fell flat. Barack Obama has had to work in one of the most toxic political environments any president has ever had to face. The Party of No is doing its best to damage him...even if it means damaging our country. The adherents of the Party of No ought to be asking themselves why they want to do something like that to their own country.

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@Frank Apisa,

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I guess that was meant to be cute, Gunga, but it fell flat. Barack Obama has had to work in one of the most toxic political environments any president has ever had to face.

The toxic environment is the dufe's own creation.

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@Frank Apisa,

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Also, it certainly did not help Mr. Obama's cause that the leaders of the gang of four, the real architects of the financial crash, landed with their feet firmly planted inside his administration, holding down all of the most important and the most prominent positions within it. But even more importantly, as the recent three billion dollar lost by Merrill-lynch (because of more Wall Street Casino gambling with investor's money) revealed, the Obama legislation designed to close the floodgates that allowed the crash to happen, seem uniformly inept and ineffectual. Glass-Steigall was not restored, credit default swap continue as they did before, etc.

Ever heard that term, Frank?? That was the sort of thing which used to happen when democrats were serious people.

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