Tell me exactly what exactly his empty promises are, please.
He promised to overhaul the healthcare system. He did just that.
He promised to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell. He did just that.
Under him one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression was averted. Yes, unemployment is high and the housing market is in shambles. What do you expect him to do about it? He does not control the economy. I've always found it really curious that the same people angry at Obama for sticking his nose in their business expect him to snap his fingers and get jobs back.
Angry at him for unemployment? What exactly do you expect him to do about it?
Here's what you do; invest in our infrastructure, invest in science and education. But people don't want him to do that, they want him to focus on jobs. Kind of a catch-22, don't you think?
Of course he's not perfect, and yes he's had his failures. Show me the president who succeeded at everything he tried and kept every single promise. Compared to many, I think our current president has done a good job at doing what he promised so far.
Empty promises:
Good God, I don't have time to type all of this, but sift through these 79 pages and take your pick. A ton of promises with no real plan to implement them and for most that I've seen, none have actually been addressed.
Since I haven't reached 15 posts yet, I can't post a link, so to trick the server, please add the "www" at the beginning of the link:
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Furthermore, he's botched the following:
1) The BP Oil spill. He didn't respond for days and days and when he did, he made idiotic comments (about kicking Tony Hayward's ass, etc), he turned down foreign help when it was needed, etc.
2) He had a laundry list of appointee's/aquantinances/etc that he had to distance himself from because of their sleaziness or he's just been brazen enough to keep them around, despite their ties to communism, tax evading issues, among a host of other outlandish things:
a) Mary Lloyd
b) Van Jones
c) Kevin Jennings
d) Nancy Killefer
e) Tom Daschle
f) Timothy Geithner
g) Bill Richardson
h) Tony Rezko
i) Jeremiah Wright
j) Governor Blagojevich
k) Rashid Khalidi
etc, etc, etc
3) The Beer Summit. What a joke and it only happened because of his ill-advised "police acted stupidly comment."
4) His Muslim NASA focus. Ridiculous.
5) Stark Treaty
6) Stating that the Stimulus packages would prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%
7) The Dream Act - barf.
8) Trying to secure the Olympics for Chicago in 2016.
9) His Nobel Peace prize
10) Continuing with Bush's bailing out of GM and Chrysler. Fail.
11) His Financial Regulation bill that doesn't address the real problems, but rather is a throw-back to big banks.
There's more, I'm sure, I'm tired of researching.
About fixing the economy. It's sooooo simple. It isn't Obama's job to create the exact jobs. He doesn't need to hire more government employees. He doesn't need to come up with 10 million road construction jobs. Nope. He needs to encourage jobs growth here. Period. How, cut the millions of regulations against companies, cut income tax levels on individuals and cut taxes on businesses. Encourage people to do work here. If he would do that, we would be miles ahead.
Instead, he spent billions, yes, billions on jobs that didn't last, never happened, or cost the taxpayers hundreds of dollars on the penny for what they were really worth. And what happened. Nothing. We have a few new roads, bridges, etc....and now no money and no jobs.
Is our economy saved? No. He just threw an outrageous amount of fake money at a symptom rather than problem. All he did was create a tidal wave to hit us right after a volcano explodes. Thanks. Our economy is more fragile and more susceptible to problems due to his "solution." He essentially realized that we had a flat tire on the front of the car and rotated it to the rear and now everyone thinks we got rid of the flat. Nope, it's smoke and mirrors. He has added to the problem, not detracted from it.
Furthermore, if you want to give him credit for the healthcare bill, please realize that even though he wanted this and it was a campaign promise, it is a terrible piece of legislation and will have so many unintended consequences that in a few years people will hate this. I used to work with a guy who worked in the UK and he warned me about the 4 or 5 things that would come out of such a bill and I can go into detail if wanted, but it's bad mojo baby.
"Dont' ask, Don't Tell" frankly, who gives a flying shit? With all of the problems we are facing are gays in the military even on anyone's top 100 list? Really?
So wow, he had a Congressional super-power with regards to numbers, 2 years of time, and the amount of momentum he had from the campaign and those 2 things are going to be his legacy? Pitiful in my opinion. Thank God he was so inept, otherwise we could have had more crappy legislation.
