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By Roger Kimball

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Why did George H.W. Bush lose to Bill Clinton in 1992? Doubtless you could adduce several reasons, including “it’s the economy, stupid.” But there was also the matter of a broken promise: “Read my lips: no new taxes.” Enterprising observers have compiled an illuminating collage of President Obama promising not to negotiate health care “reform” “behind closed doors.” He would bring “all parties together,” he said in one of his exhibitions of campaign foreplay, “broadcasting those negotiations on CSPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.” During the campaign, CSPAN was his mantra: the objective correlative of his promise to make his administration the most “open and transparent” ever. It was Andrew Breitbart, I believe, who first connected these dots:

In fact, as the contrast between candidate Obama’s repeated invocation of CSPAN and President Obama’s repeated recourse to secrecy reveals, the only thing “transparent” about this administration is its dishonesty, which, like Falstaff’s, “is gross as a mountain, open palpable.” Even the circumspect Brian Lamb, CEO of CSPAN, was moved to lament Obama’s poaching on the prestige of the network to further the Democratic political agenda.

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Left and right, the public has reacted badly to this blatant failure to honor a campaign promise that was made not once, not twice, but at least eight times. The President’ Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, has made a bad situation worse by his hostile tergiversations.

“I covered that yesterday,” he said, but a look at his comments then shows that he didn’t.

What does it all mean? For one thing, it means that Obama’s deficit spending extends to the spiritual exchequer of political credibility. Economists tell us the United States will be in hock some $12 trillion by the time Obama gets done with us. How overdrawn will he be in the public trust department? Rightly or wrongly, the epithet “tricky Dick” clung like a limpet to Richard Nixon. What nickname will Obama earn? “Blaguing Barack”? “Hustling Hussein”? “Obfuscating Obama”?

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  1. 1. Donna

    If only….

  2. 2. Yes We Did

    When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader?

    In case you didn’t notice, there was an election last year. We won, you lost, and you racist white males will never get another chance.

    President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.

  3. 3. tc

    Good analysis. nice work

  4. 4. David Thomson

    Forty to forty-five of the voting public does not give a damn whether Barack Obama is a liar. They not only approach truth in a postmodernist fashion—these lefties can always blame the Republicans! Poor Obama was forced to lie because the reactionary conservatives forced him to do so. The president’s deceit is actually further proof of his victim status. This means we are roughly left with only a decent size majority of Americans who will hold Obama accountable. The odds may be in our favor, but we cannot take anything for granted. There are just too many likely voters who could care less if their favorite politicians lie on a daily basis.

  5. 5. Sebastian Shaw

    The only thing transparent about President Obama is his thin skin, cowardice, naked arrogance on display as the Narcissist-in-Chief cannot get enough of his own reflection. Anything else is just lies, hyperbole, thuggery from the transplanted Chicago machine.

  6. 6. WRJonas

    Yes and we mustnt forget that it was only a month or so ago that WWBNP was trumpeting a full blown recovery and economic resurrection. We were assured by the salivating World Wide Brown Nose Press that it was a done deal; Obama magic had saved the day.
    To invest any belief in this disgraceful
    liar is a waste of time and dangerous to our lives.
    And a word to Yes We Did ; Obama rules nothing , he is an elected official who took an oath. He ,unlike a King, can be removed from office.
    What a delight that will be.

  7. 7. Sebastian Shaw

    The alternative media Fox News will have to keep President Obamas feet to the fire since the MSM will play Obamas defense; in this sense, no, its not quite the similar parallel to President George H. W. Bushs no new taxes pledge.

  8. 8. Judy Breck

    The Yes We Did comment above includes a phrase that greatly explains what is happening in our republic: President Obama rules this country now . . . Barack may act like he is sovereign and imagine that he rules, but that is not what the Constitution says. When American citizens look to the occupant in the White House as their ruler, our free land is deeply troubled. The President can be impeached by the Senate and must stand for election. He does not rule; he is greatly restricted in what he can do by the Constitution.

    As to the name that will stick to him, perhaps it is simply liar, which he surely is.

  9. 9. Dee

    Young King Oh is a lying soul.
    A lying soul is he.
    He opens mouth and
    lies sprout.
    He will always lie to thee and me.

    Sorry Old King Cole. I couldnt resist.

  10. 10. Sparky

    Well done. Ive thought for a long time that the sheer dishonesty and blatant stealing of money by the dems would shock and awe the American people. Say what you will about President Bush, but he was honest, almost to a fault. The American people do not want to be played a fool and to be so disingenuously lied to, all the while stealing billions of taxpayer dollars in made-up zip codes, cities and districts (see City of Upland, CT getting $20M in stimulus money – city does not exist).

  11. 11. Bill M

    In reply to “Yes We Did,” are you writing parody or are you serious?! If its the latter, its interesting to see that you are happy to be “ruled” by Obama. I had thought we had a representative government, and that the president was the chief executive and not the Emperor, but I know a lot of things have changed, especially in the last 4 or 5 decades.

    Anyway, I am one white male who would love to see a conservative, Constitution-loving black president. We sure don’t have that now.

  12. 12. cookie

    I want a glass of whatever #3 is drinkin

  13. 13. Sebastian Shaw

    Yes We Did, can you think for yourself other than sounding like a robo-call put to the computer? Don’t bother answering, it is a rhetorical question.

  14. 14. PaulM

    The President is wholly inadequate in the position he holds as Chief Executive of the United States of America. It is obvious now that what he said during the campaign for the office of President was nothing but deceit, saying whatever it took to get himself elected, and without any intent of implementing what he said, confident that the voters would forget. But we haven’t and we won’t. He doesn’t understand Al Quaida. He has surrounded himself with hacks who also are inadequate or dishonest in the execution of their offices. His Attorney General (Holder) has an agenda of his own. The barbarians were at the gates and he wouldn’t leave his golf game. They’ll test him again.

  15. 15. Mike2

    “On the contrary, he takes nothing more seriously than himself.”

    That of course is the root of his problem. He is acting like a spoiled child that thinks his toys will be taken away from him. The really dangerous time for the Republic is coming up. Conservatives, independents and all others that truly value our freedom better get out and vote in droves this year for fiscally responsible candidates that value and wish to protect the Constitution. I’m telling everyone that we are going to see voter fraud like never before in our nation’s history and the west coast and northeastern states may be lost causes.

  16. 16. Steve DeMarcus

    3. Yes We Did:
    When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader?

    In case you didn’t notice, there was an election last year. We won, you lost, and you racist white males will never get another chance.

    President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.

    Jan 10, 2010 – 1:35 pm”

    Please quit spamming this forum with the same old stuff I have just copied and pasted the same old thing you paste in all these forums and for your information some of those that participate in these forums actually have something to state about the topic like in the case of this topic where George Bush senior was defeated by Bill Clinton in 1992 by first making a well published speech to “read my lips no new taxes” then went along with the democrats and added NEW Taxes!

    This man (Obama) has violated so many campaign slogans and promises that you saw the beginning of the “Tea Parties!” People are fed up with this stuff and are seeing that the way the country is going is not one they hope for or would ever in their worst dreams ask for.

    Yeah you won but not again so get ready for the real people to take back over and restore sanity. Go back to your hatred and imbecilic ways you had your chance and blew it big time. You were given you big chance and blew it big time now the silent majority has a voice as well as might and are going to use it very soon!

  17. The “Yes We Did” parody has been copied and pasted, word for word, on multiple postings on PJM (I got it myself, once). It’s obvious it’s a joke, albeit not hilarious.

  18. 18. Mary Grabar

    Let’s pray that he doesn’t institute some kind of coup. With immigration “reform,” universal voter registration, Black Panthers at polling booths, Soros-trained attorney generals “recounting” close races, it may not matter what the majority wants. I honestly would not put anything beyond this man. Republicans need to wake up to his complete lack of conscience. These tapes need to be political commercials.

  19. 19. ronnor

    Its pretty bad when the People start thinking that the Reverends’ Jesse Jackson and or Al Sharpton would have been a better President if it was so important to the guilt ridden liberal/progressive/marxist to have a black President under any circumstance. They all must think they owned slaves in their former lives to have sold our country out like they have. Now we have a Marxist in the most powerful position in the world, who has an ideology if a true Alinsky acolyte that has murdered over 200 million of its own citizens. We have always had enemies at the wall but now they are inside the perimeter.

  20. 20. lessthantolerant

    I want all to re-read “Yes We Can”. This is a very good representation of what elected the “Quota President”

    These parasites have two beliefs;

    1. They have less than others because of racism.
    2. They will now get what they deserve because their messiah is in charge.

    Let us all hope that revolution is just around the corner and we can tar and feather these animals and send them back to Kenya.

  21. 21. jd

    Actually I don’t think it is possible for a Dem to have a “Read My Lips” moment.

    You see, the left doesn’t care about specific promises, only about the General Leftward Tilt of the person they elect.

    Hence we se no fallout for Harry Reed because as Ovomit has said, “I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” or in plain English – “He’s a liberal, it doesn’t count for him.”

    Unlike conservatives, for whom integrety and honesty in a candidate are important, liberals care only about liberalism, and they will subordinate anything to that one and only value.

    Hence, a man running for the Senate says a sinlge word that sounds sorta kinda like a derogetory word in an obscure language spoken by less than 1% of the world’s population, and it’s akin to having doned a white sheet and attacked someone in the late of night.

    But for Harry?

    Nada.

    just my thoughts.

    jd

  22. 22. Steve DeMarcus

    When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader? When he becomes one

    In case you didn’t notice, there was an election last year. We won, you lost, and you racist white males will never get another chance.It is 2010 now and now we are in a new era, it seems his 15 minutes was only 2 or 3

    President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.Dream on stupid ♫ ♫♫♪ for the times they are a changing ♫ ♫♫♪! Little Bob Dylan stuff there you idiot with your cut copy and paste.

    We do not wish to see your crappy posts here any more they lack imagination or even thought, please go waste your time elsewhere you gig is old and worn out. Oh yeah I hope you have a crappy day!

  23. 23. Ron spins

    Without fail….The administrations that say they will be
    the most ethical , transparent …..are NOT .!

    It’s just lie , lie , lie…to get elected.

  24. 24. RebeccaH

    What nickname will Obama garner for himself? I like simple things, so I’m going to go with “Barry The Liar”.

  25. 25. westerncanadian

    Of course Obama is a liar. Call him scammer-’bama or whatever. Every country elects a turkey from time to time. The scary thing about Obama is that he by himself isn’t the whole problem with the good old USA. He’s just a symptom of a bigger problem.

    Suppose he had never arrived as a candidate. Would ordinary Americans still be as happy and as proud of their great country today as they used to be years ago? No. Would the USA still be racking up suicidal amounts of foreign debt? Yes. Would the standards of education continue to decline? Yes. Would the idea that government expenditures should be constrained to meet the revenues from taxes be totally forgotten? Yes. Would government be smaller and less intrusive today? No.

    I am afraid that some very fundamental American ideas, attitudes and living habits that made the USA into the “shining city on the hill”, have been long forgotten or scorned. That is where the problems come from. Obama is just a pathetic symptom of some underlying national disorder.

    In Canada we had our own Obama in the ’70′s in the person of Pierre Trudeau. He was the symptom of a weakening of traditional Canadian values of self reliance, toughness, hard work and enterprise. He too was a socialist. We recovered, sort of, but it took about 20 years. Along the way we had a 65 cent dollar and all the misery and loss in wealth that came with it.

    Because Obama is as much a symptom as a cause, the GOP needs to address the underlying malady in a serious fashion. It is good tactics to focus on Obama. It is a bad strategy to think that is all they have to do.

  26. 26. Bilgeman

    #3 Yes We Did:
    “…President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice.”

    You’re KILLIN’ me, man!

    You get someone riled up on nearly every single post with this exact same troll.
    It would be funny if wasn’t so sad. You really gotta start appending a “/sarc” tag to these things.

    (You ARE being sarcastic, right?).

    Yours for a better tomorrow;

    Bilge

  27. 27. MochaLite

    YesWeDid said: “When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader?”

    When you sycophants cease your racist kowtowing to him. And why do you capitalize the word leader? This isn’t North Korea.

  28. 28. Bilgeman

    #5 David Thomson:
    “Forty to forty-five of the voting public does not give a damn whether Barack Obama is a liar. They not only approach truth in a postmodernist fashion—these lefties can always blame the Republicans!”

    I only think that those figures hold true in a very rare set of circumstances.

    There’s an irreducible minimum of voters who think that whatever the Alleged Hawaiian does is okay, as long as they perceive it as him “stickin’ it to the White man”.
    Likewise, there’s only so many people who are willing to give him carte blanche as long as they think he is “soaking the rich”.
    And there’s a sizable contingent of his support that will tur on him and tear him to shreds the instant he stops showering them with Federal spending largesse.

    This sets him up in a situation where he must decide which constituency is the one he’s going to betray, since not every single Obama voter is Black, poor, or eating his bread from government contracting or the Civil Service.

    The longer he’s in office, the greater and more severe the cases of “betrayal butthurt” are going to grow. And the Left keeps a grudge like nobody’s business.

    This is why, as bad as Obama is, it is better that McCain was defeated, since otherwise it would be GOP constituencies getting sold out by “one of their own”.

  29. 29. Wade

    My vote is “BS Barry”

  30. 30. rrbs

    I find it fascinating that, for both Liberalism and Islam, permits lying to non believers.

  31. 31. Mike Jefferson

    The only thing more pathetic than Obama’s lies and deceptions is the lack of any accountability on the part of the media. The 5th estate, a class that was so entrusted by our framers to ensure the honesty of government has become nothing more than a veritable 5th column of the current administration.

  32. 32. ancona

    For me his read my lips moment was when he said in the 20 years he attended Rev.Wrights church he never heard any of his anti white anti american diatribe. OMG give me a mop make it a socialist mop cause you’ve made a real mess,Hobama in the highest.

  33. 33. Class Clown

    Western Canadian,

    You are dead on right. That is exactly why political news only barely makes me angry anymore, only sad. When on earth did our nation of free citizens become a people who begged for kings and looked for worldly saviors from all of our own fears and follies?

  34. 34. Stepan

    “…the only thing “transparent” about this administration is its dishonesty,…”

    You hit the nail on the head, Roger!

  35. 35. tcuebvs

    Roger, what a GREAT line:

    “A curious feature of this administration is its flickering quality — its tendency to oscillate between the appearance of blithe incompetence at one moment and power-hungry arrogance the next.”

    All the best,

    TERRY

  36. 36. HTuttle

    Last black President of the 21st century.

  37. 37. cfbleachers

    Guys, “yes, we did”…is irony. It’s not terribly funny, it’s repetitive each thread and it makes an over exaggerated point…but, it’s meant to be ironic, not a real response.

    What does it all mean? For one thing, it means that Obama’s deficit spending extends to the spiritual exchequer of political credibility. Economists tell us the United States will be in hawk some $12 trillion by the time Obama gets done with us.

    Roger, BK Barry, Overdrawn Obama, etc., won’t stick. When you own the entrenched media lock, stock and barry…it will never gain traction.

    At least Democratic Senators are making out well, like Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson …and there response seems to be “we’ll Bury Whose Sayin Oh, Buy Me”.

  38. 38. Blackacre

    BOBS, noun, Barack Obama BS [2010]. “Robert Fibbs just spreads the BOBS.” “More jobs, less BOBS.”

  39. 39. CPT

    Obama makes Clinton look like an honest man!

  40. 40. John - TMF

    CLUE BAT TIME!!!!

    HERE IT COMES! Don’t duck or you’ll still be left in the parallel dimension!!!

    The Main Stream Media is the Propaganda Arm of the Democrat Party.

    Ok. There is the clue folks. Please remember it throughout all discussions pertaining to controversial/insensitive/stupid/silly things said by Democrats.

    Nothing, allow me to repeat…NOTHING at all will come of this. ZERO. It will go away like the IG firing investigation, The One’s fibbing about open-ness and CSPAN coverage of debates… EVERYTHING will be ignored and disappear into the vast ozone hole of inconvenient facts.

    Sorry folks. The Double Standard is an absolute rule of operation for the Left. The reality that if the phrase had been uttered by any Conservative of any stripe would have generated MACACA… ;-)

    Nuff said.

    r/The Mighty Fahvaag

  41. 41. Jim

    I’ll say what the MSM will never dare to say, “The President of the United States is a chronic and habitual LIAR.”

  42. 42. John - TMF

    That goes to Harry Reid’s latest foray into verbal hypocrisy as well…

    The MSM will just give the whole thing the old Emily Littela “Oooh… I’m soorry…. Well then… Nevermind”.. :-}

    ReRegards… TMF

  43. 43. Francesca

    We will be in HAWK???? Please . . . it is hock, not hawk.

    Good grief!

  44. 44. Francesca

    Re: Westerncanadian #26:

    Excellent post. I just wonder if the Republicans can be clever enough to follow your strategy. Here’s hoping.

  45. For the first time in my life, I agree with Bill Clinton and his comment about coffee. Can anyone say “Barry the Barista“?

  46. Roger, it’s hard to believe that a Yankee can write as well as you do. [chuckling]

    but, i wouldn’t put too much store in the decline of President Obama’s popularity. the chart you posted (as Christina Romer has pointed out regarding job losses) shows that his decline has not been as rapid in recent months as it was earlier in the year. ;-)

  47. 47. Harvard Yard Conservative

    The phrase “United States will be in hawk…” should read “United States will be in hock…”

    Sometimes, I cannot resist the need to proofread. I guess that must be like our president’s need to read the entire federal budget line by line so that he can eliminate unnecessary programs.

  48. 48. Ltw

    Yes We Did – you gotta start varying your repertoire man. You need a different standard response for the articles where there is no mention of race!

    Love the capitalised “Leader” and “He”.

    How the hell do you always get up in the first 5 comments, you got the site on auto-refresh or what?

  49. 49. Ferdsblog

    “Backtrack Barack”

  50. 50. misanthropicus

    RE #3/Yes We Did:

    [...] When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader? In case you didn’t notice, there was an election last year. We won, you lost, and you racist white males will never get another chance. President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice. [...]

    Is YWD real? I just can’t get it -
    Sometimes I have the impression that PJM invented this YWD and place it on threads to stir rabid racist heterphobes homophobes who don’t want to pay reparations to the oppressed like myself -

    Whatever – But the post sure succeeds in arousing in me the rabid heterosupremacist! Arrrrrggggghhhhhh!

  51. 51. Charlie

    My opinion, at the time, was that candidate Obama’s “See it on CPAN” was an unforgivable act of hubris. As if he made programming decisions at CSPAN!

    I have lately realized that this comment is part and parcel with his “been to fifty-seven states” gaffe. It betrays a fundamental gap in his education and life experience, and an appalling lack of understanding about what it means to be an American.

    Charlie

  52. 52. Yes We Didn't:

    When will you cease the unholy attacks on ‘He-Who-Is-Almost-Too-Cool-To-Rule’(name © 2008, corn & Rancid Nuts Ltd – ‘The Wit To Be Witless’).

    Yes, there was an election last year. Which we stole. So get under it.

    Because the arrival of ‘He-Who-Is-Almost-Too-Cool-To-Rule’ immediately set the oceans to fall, unemployment to rise, and Nancy’s face to slip a notch.

    And, verily, ‘He-Who-Is-Almost-Too-Cool-To-Rule’, by the magic of his faithful teleprompter, has commanded his loyal subjects in every corner of our 57 states, to fill up with joy and wonder and alternative fuels, and show the level of love and subservience He allows us to bestow on Him.

    ‘He-Who-Is-Almost-Too-Cool-To-Rule’ will one day lead us to the promised land of Lemmings, in a galaxy far, far away where he was born.

    And from where he is watched over for eternity by other Celestial Beings, all named Al, who watch his progress with much joy and a truckload of weed.

    Hey, way cool, man. Anything stronger in that backpack, Barry?

  53. 53. misanthropicus

    Re #5/David Thomson:

    [...] not only approach truth in a postmodernist fashion—these lefties can always blame the Republicans! [...]

    David, right you are and here is my bet on something hot that’s just descending upon us:

    Probably Ahmadinejad will be removed – and while we cannot know what further misery will happen in Iran, Obama and the Dems will brazenly claim that it was Obama’s diplomacy that caused that development (hopefully a positive one) -

    But it’s Bush’s and Cheney’s steadfastness that pressed Iran into today’s situation -

  54. 55. Ferdsblog

    Backtrack Barack

  55. 56. Richard A.

    #3, yeah, that was funny. Once.

  56. 57. tanarg

    YesWeDid: You are on the wrong side; you are supporting a liar, a shameful manipulator, and an egomaniac. In America, we don’t lie down and shut up just because we lost an election. Go to China if you want that type of life.

  57. 58. eor

    Yes We Did #3–Yes you did! You bought him. He is YOURS!

  58. 59. Roger Kimball

    #44 / #48 on hawk/hock, quite write, I mean rite –er right. Now fixed. Bonus homerus dormitat, as Horace says.

  59. 60. Inge

    I think sometimes this year, Obama will have to take a side regarding muslim jihadist, and the the safety of americans.
    His conflict has been obvious for some time, his downplaying of Ft. Hood, the Christmas bamber, the attack in AK..etc.
    He changed Pres Bush’s policies, to ‘NOT PROFILE BLACK MUSLIMS’.
    We have a very conflicted president, and not in our favor, without his already blanat lying.
    I would recommed reading on the American Thinker yesterday’s column:
    “Obama has to choose’.
    I would really recommend reading, and it all becomes clearly into focus.

  60. 61. Roy M

    I think that Roger misread that.

    The problem with Obama and Cspan is not honesty it is judgement. Trying to negotiate anything in public is a terrible idea. I expect that Obama was being honest when he said Cspan would be his negotiating medium using simple non-ambiguous declerative sentences, but he was displaying terrible judgement. So bad that he was left with this choice: go with public negotiations and probably lose the policy on which he explicitly stood to deliver public healthcare, or deliver on the promise of public healthcare and loose Cspan.

    It was bad judgement to say that negotiations would be on Cspan, it would have been worse judgement still to stick with that statement.

    Now lets contrast this with Bush. Bush was displaying excellent judgement: “No new taxes”, being an election-winning slogan, but no honesty at all. He knew that he might have to increase taxes so he used the usual method of political dishonesty: making a statement with the look, flavor and smell of promising not to increase taxes but without actually making the promise. Bush knew he was being dishonest as he spoke, and he was being dishonest about a core substantive policy.

  61. 62. Sebastian Shaw

    Yes We Did could be a media drone working for Hillary Clintons Media Matters or some other George Soros group to troll internet sites sound like a soulless machine of a Democrat parody. It does not retort back. It just spits out Democrat talking points racist diatribes.

  62. 63. deguello

    #62 ROY M: You are as dishonest and hypocritical, as the free press hating,lying, Chavez-wannabee you are so desperately trying to protect.It is BAD government not to inform the American people of the moral and intellectual corruption of the democratic congress.

  63. 64. Dobby

    A Haiku…

    Obama has failed
    The worst President ever
    Jimmy Carter smiles!

  64. 65. jgreene

    Is it possible to trade President Obama for President Chavez. At least we could stop the ECONOMIC BLEEDING and get a few laughs from Chavez.

    At the rate Obama is going, hell probably suggest we have to devalue the dollar by 50% so we can Grow the Economy.

    The Obama Administration, this President, his Czars and Czarinas, Terrorist Ass Kissing AG, and the entire DemoCRAT Congress have to GO. 2010 and 2012 are crucial year to sweep these miscreants OUT OF POLITICAL OFFICE.

    If we dont remove them politically, there will be a New American Revolution and it wont be non-violent.

  65. 66. Jeff

    so when Obama promised not taxes for those making less than 250K he was making a policy promise …

    a promise he broke within a short period of time when he tripled the federal cigarette tax …

    what Bush did he did as part of a compromise with Democrats to curtail spending … he never intended to raise taxes … but a good deal was offered which changed the game so he decided to change his mind about taxes …

    What changed for Obama ? What pressure or deal was he offered to cause him to scrap his promises ?

    Your belief that Obama is such a smart cookie is crubmling everyday and everytime Obama makes or doesnt make a decision. He is in over his head and it shows in small and large ways.

    Obama cant even keep his own family and personal history straight much less demostrate even a basic grasp of American or World history. He may be educated but its hard to tell what he has been educated in. It certainly was not in economics, or history, or education, or constitutional law since nobody has ever seen any examples of his work in any of those areas. Im sorry, we have seen an example of his work in education but Im not sure he wants anyone looking at that too hard.

    Obama is a Milli Vanilli President – he has been lip syching his entire career and is terrified the music may stop sometime soon. That is why he is in such a rush.

  66. 67. anton

    Hey everybody, the poster Yes We Did is probably a bot.

    In almost every post that names Obama the EXACTLY SAME post occurs. Dont waste your time responding.

  67. 68. ExRat

    Love Dobbys haiku. It wont be long before we look back on Carters time as the good old days.

    But to get to the topic, I dont think the CSPAN remarks will be a read my lips moment because (a) the issue (the remark itself, not the health care initiative) doesnt hit anyones pocketbook, and in any event the O (or is it 0?) has semi-insulated himself by letting Pelosi and Reid champion the bill and (b) GHWB didnt have the entire media establishment (except for Fox News and the conservative radio talk show people) in the tank for him–on the contrary, they drew their knives immediately and havent put them away since.

    So the 40 or 50 percent of the voting public who dont think about politics until 2 weeks before a presidential election will never hear about it, and it wont make any more difference than a mouse peeing in the ocean.

  68. 69. Maxwell

    #3 above has had a gallon of the Jim Jones coolaide! HIs election was no mandate or landslide by any stretch.

    We are getting screwed by the media, which chooses to hide the facts as they worship at the alter of Obama! Obama is merely a puppet of groups like the SCIU, George Sorros, and the like, and his tactics prove only that he came from the Chicago political machine.

    This press secretary is laughable! If he had any morals or self respect, he would get a job somewhere else. I for one would never be paid to lie or mislead for a living!

  69. 70. Mike

    Yes We Did:
    When will you cease the racist attacks on our new Leader?In case you didn’t notice, there was an election last year. We won, you lost, and you racist white males will never get another chance.
    President Obama rules this country now and He enjoys the love and support of all people of good will. He will lead us into a bright new world of peace and justice
    AND UNICORNS AND FAIRIES WILL ONCE AGAIN ADORN OUR FAIR LAND.

  70. 71. Mike M

    Lyin Hawaiian

  71. 72. Ethan Perks

    He will not be held to the same standard as either Bush. Wrong party.
    And the Dems are avoiding the REAL issuue that broke Bush 1 and gave
    Clinton 6years of Republican congress. GUN CONTROL. I know many gun
    owners who voted Perot or didnt vote in 92. THE VOTED IN 94.

  72. 73. Insufficiently Sensitive

    iI want all to re-read “Yes We Can”. This is a very good representation of what elected the “Quota President”/i

    Actually, shes a right-wing troll in cynical mode, and a very successful one – look at all the blather he shakes loose from commenters. Shes been making the same remarks on comment lists for months, and for such a cheap investment he reaps huge profits in return paragraphs. Now would be a good time to stop responding.

  73. 74. Sarge

    Keep it simple, Roger:

    B.S. Barry, the clown of Chi-town works just fine for me.

  74. 75. Sebastian Shaw

    B.S. Barry has a nice ring to it. B.S. Barry & Michelle My-Bell Obama.

  75. 76. jeanneb

    Nickname for the prez:

    Po’Bama.

    As in, po Bama, he’s always feeling sorry for himself.

  76. 77. D

    You know that this telelgenic, media inspiring sit-com of an administration doesn’t DO ‘dead men walking’.

    There is already an actual precedence for this.

    It’s called “Jumping The Shark.”

  77. 78. cuchieddie

    Mary Grabar, when the New Black Panther Party becomes a fixture at the polling booths I can assure you that we will arrive to vote fully locked and loaded.

  78. 79. MarkJ

    Yes We Did:

    Sooooo….hows that padded cell and monogrammed strait jacket working out for you? Are they comfy enough?

  79. 80. skeeziks

    Is the question can a Democrat be as bad as a Republican. Not this one.

  80. 81. person

    7 lies in 2 minutes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0

  81. 82. LaRae

    As a 68 yr old US Navy veteran, this site privides some very troubling reading. Most of the comments I’ve read seem to be written by elementary school children that have been bullied and no one is listening to their crying. Is this the way our country was founded and has grown, to produce a bunch of inarticulate ninnies ? From my perspective, the future of our country is in BIG trouble….

  82. 83. mr

    #86: you said right….
    Democrats, we are in charge… so no C-span. we will pass the healthcare bill.like it or not

  83. 84. Berlet98

    The Fourth Estate as Fifth Column

    Our system of government both permits and encourages dissent as long as that dissent is not expressed violently or used as incitements to violence. In those cases, freedoms of speech and of the press can border on sedition and should be supressed to preserve order.

    America’s mainstream media, the MSM, may not yet be guilty of sedition but may be guilty of crimes far more reprehensible: giving aid and comfort to the enemy and serving as handmaidens to a repressive government.

    The motivations of the MSM are beyond this observer’s comprehension. Even after the president’s grudging acknowledgement that we are engaged in a war with al Qaeda, various elements of our media continue reporting falsehoods and/or concealing truths.

    Examples would include continuing to bury facts concerning the Fort Hood murderer’s contacts with al Qaeda as if Major Hasan deserved some media protection, or in order to conceal the scope of Islamic terrorism in America.

    More incomprehensible is that it took Obama, this most brilliant of men, over a year to come to the determination that we are engaged in a war against terrorism and, even then, it took an attempted al Qaeda bombing on Christmas Day to provide the catalyst for his concession to reality.

    One has to assume that the MSM reporters and editors . . .

    (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1418 )

  84. 85. deguello

    #86LaRae:Which navy LaRot? The Cuban? If you are a USN vet,I’m Davy Jones.Go back to your code pink sewer,and see whether they can improve your inept impersonation skills,you condescending clown.

  85. 86. scythe

    Take a close look at Obama when he says over and over again everything will be done on C-SPAN. Look closely at his expression and especially his eyes. He is flat out lying and it is obvious. Had I seen these a while ago I would have known immediately that he was lying though his teeth. And it looks like he secretly enjoys the inside joke. What a fraud.

  86. 87. scythe

    #53. Splendid! LOL

  87. 88. digitalis

    #3-Wanna pass the pipe down here?

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