cha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaange. change of fools?
By American Girl in Italy on January 18, 2009 at 8:00 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Democrats, Obama's Broken Promises
The people wanted Change! Change! Change! It’s been a banner year for the Democrats! Change is a coming! But, looking back over the past year, I really have to ask, what kind of change did the people want? What kind of change did the voters think they were getting? And *change* from what, exactly?
What we have seen so far –
Journalists are being shut out by Obama. He preselects his favorites, at pressers, he gets irritated when asked tough questions, and is already feeling media fatigue.
Obama has no plans to prosecute the Bush administration, which many of those who voted for him want.
Obama has filled his new cabinet with people from the Clinton administration, and kept Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense (from the Bush administration).
Obama promised transparency, but has not followed through. He was not forthcoming and upfront with regard to the Blagojevich scandal (it took him weeks to disclose all contact with Blago, and even then, didn’t disclose everything), the Rezko scandal (it took him months to fully disclose the amount of money raised by Rezko).
Obama was not forthcoming in what he knew, and when he knew it wrt Wright, and his sermons. He was not forthcoming as to the extent of his relationship with Ayers.
Obama also refuses to release his donor list, even though there were numerous instances of fraudulent donations discovered. And with the numerous lawsuits surrounding his birth certificate and eligibility, he refuses to release his official birth certificate, and put the matter to rest. (I think he was born in Hawaii, and find all that natural born citizen stuff crazy, but don’t understand his refusal to release the document.)
Obama promised to close Gitmo within his first 100 days, then backpedaled. Now, he promises to sign an order, only to get his supporters off his back, but that does not mean it will close it immediately.
Obama promised to set an aggressive timeline to get out of Iraq, but now plans to stay the course, as set by Bush.
Obama has shown to be a typical politician who will say anything to anyone, to get elected. He told a Chicago gay and lesbian newspaper in ’96 he supports gay marriage. But, to win the Presidential race, and conservative African Americans/Hispanics, he flipped and changed position.
Obama promised to filibuster FISA, but when it came time to vote, he sided with Bush. He has flipped on guns, NAFTA, abortion, and more.
“Barack Obama, continuing to shake up the establishment, selects as his running mate Joe Biden, a tireless fighter for change since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1849.” (this is from a hilarious article by Dave Barry. Read it, if you missed it.)
We have a failure by the media to ask tough questions of Obama. (Like the MSM and their failure to question Bush prior to the Iraq war.) “Business & Media Institute’s Dan Gainor appeared on “Fox & Friends,” Jan. 12 to discuss why, with trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, and the future of our economic system on the line, the mainstream media won’t ask Obama tough questions on his stimulus plan. Given the media favoritism for Barack Obama during the campaign, Gainor said, “So, it’s no surprise that they’re not asking him tough questions [about the stimulus package].”
Call me crazy, but this sounds a lot like the criticisms that Bush received for 8 years. And on top of all that, there were a massive amount of scandals this year in the Democratic party. (some of these are summaries I pulled off newsbusters – they did a post on a CNN story, comparing Sarah Palin’s wardrobe-gate to the Dem scandals.)
~Rob Blagojevich (D-IL)- Caught in a criminal bribe taking pay-to-play scheme to sell Barack Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder.
~John Edwards (D-NC)- Had an affair with an underling as his wife was dying of cancer, an affair he hid from public knowledge as he ran for president. Denied they had a child together.
~Kwame Kilpatrick (D-MI)- Sentenced to 4 months in jail for obstruction of justice for impeding a criminal investigation into his actions as Detroit’s mayor.
~Larry Langford (D-AL)- Birmingham, Alabama mayor arrested on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing a false income tax statement.
~Tim Mahoney (D-FL)- Replaced sex crazed Rep. Mark Foley in Florida while hiding his own extra-marital affairs from the voters, then lost his bid for reelection once the truth came out.
~Elliot Spitzer (D-NY)- Caught with a prostitute, lost his job as governor of New York.
~Mayor Gary Becker (D) of Racine, Wisconsin is “charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, possession of child pornography, exposing a child to harmful materials, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and misconduct in public office.”
~Bill Richardson (D) – involved in a pay to play scandal, forced to withdraw from Obama appointment.
~Eric Holder – controversy over Marc Rich pardon resurfacing, while it might not threaten his appointment, it could cause some embarrassment to himself, and Obama.
~Timothy Geitner – man who would oversee the IRS, thinks paying taxes are too hard, and confusing. He failed to pay $42,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes — and waited to pay more than half of that amount – $26,000 – only after Obama decided to nominate him. On top of that, one of Geithner’s household employees failed to renew her green card.
~Tony Rezko – convicted felon, closely tied to Obama and Blago.
~Carol Browner – a member of the Socialist group Commission for a Sustainable World Society (The group advocates global government and aggressive economic penalties on countries such as the U.S. to reduce global warming.), appointed as Global Warming Czar. Once appointed, her association to the group was scrubbed from their web site.
~Al Franken (D) – Tightly contested race with voter fraud allegations surfacing. Selected not elected. (and please, Franken? ewe)
~Rham Emanuel (D) – potential ties/mishandling of Blagojevich scandal. Could provide more embarrassing for Obama administration down the road.
~Mayor Sheila Dixon of Baltimore (D) – indicted Friday on 12 counts, including theft, perjury, fraud and misconduct in office after a nearly three-year probe by the state prosecutor’s office. She was accused, among other offenses, of stealing hundreds of dollars of gift cards donated by developer Ronald H. Lipscomb and another developer to be used for needy families.
So, again I ask. What kind of change were people hoping for? It seems people sure spent a lot of time pointing fingers, but they weren’t paying attention to what was going on in their own back yards.
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And, as a side note, I have to ask, WTF?
It appears to me that some people just wanted Obama elected so they could sell a whole lotta tacky crap, and get rich, quick. *But that’s not all!*
Are you KIDDING me? Well, I guess he can’t play the *I don’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills* card anymore.
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