Ty Webb;746887 wrote: Do you not remember the 2000 election,when an entity with real power (Supreme Court) actually handed a President the election and his office(Bush)

Ty Webb;746906 wrote:A valid election......now that's really funny

I guess you don't recall Katherine Harris illegally disqualifing 20,000 voters(15,000 of which said they would have voted for Al Gore)

He promised fiscal responsibility. Then he broke lots of those promises.

Here is a list of a few of the broken promises.

Promise #6: No Tax Increase on Families Making Under 250k

“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,” Obama said in a September 2008 town hall meeting in Dover.

Reality: In his first year in office, he proposed Cap and Trade, which would be a fat tax on everyone. He increased the cigarette tax by 159 percent, and now we have that proposed tax on fancy health care benefits.

During the campaign, he criticized John McCain for just suggesting that.

“My opponent can't make that pledge [not to raise taxes] and here’s why: for the first time in American history, John McCain wants to tax your health care benefits," he said in the same speech.

But now it's Obama who wants to tax health plans:

“This reform will charge insurance companies a fee for their most expensive policies,” he said in his health care address to Congress.

Promise #5: Ban Earmarks

"We are going to ban all earmarks,” Obama said at a press conference on January 6, 2009.

Reality: The first spending bill he signed had over 9,000 earmarks.

Promise #4: I Won't Force Americans To Buy Insurance

During the campaign, Obama attacked Hillary Clinton:

“She believes we have to force people who don’t have insurance,” he said in a primary debate in January 2008.

In a Feb. 2008 CNN interview, he added: “If a mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house.”

Reality: This September, he told Congress: “Under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance.”

Promise #3: Health care negotiations will be on C-SPAN

Obama promised at least eight times that "we’re going to do all the negotiations on C-SPAN, So the American people will be able to watch.”

Reality: They haven’t been there.

Well, briefly. C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb said, “The only time we’ve been allowed to cover the White House part of it was one hour inside the East Room, which was kind of just a show horse type of thing.”

Promise #2: Putting bills online

Obama promised “When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you the public will have five days to look online, and find out what’s in it before I sign it.”

Reality: He broke that promise when he singed his first bill, the Fair Pay Act. He's broken it since, for instance on the Credit Card Bill of Rights and an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Promise #1: Cutting spending

On the campaign trail, Obama promised to cut spending several times. In the second presidential debate, he said that “actually, I am cutting more than I’m spending. So it will be a net spending cut.”

In the third debate, he reiterated: “what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.”

Of course, Republicans made claims like that, too. Bush Sr. is famous for his “Read my lips. No new taxes” line. Bush Jr. made statements like &#8220rosperity requires restraining the spending appetite of the federal government.”

Reality: Here’s a graph:

spending

Under both parties, government’s appetite grows.

But look how sharply the line rose after Obama took office. Spending increased 2 TRILLION dollars -- more than any year in history.

Ty Webb;746911 wrote: Also,you're okay with Bush stealing the 2000(and 2004 for that matter) election and his entire Presidency being a sham

iclfan2;746400 wrote:How do you figure? Trump made his money from starting out with his rich dad and going from there. Going bankrupt isn't a government handout, it is the whole point of making a corporation so the liability isn't your own.

Ty Webb;746887 wrote:So there was never been a President "handed" an election like President Obama was?

Do you not remember the 2000 election,when an entity with real power (Supreme Court) actually handed a President the election and his office(Bush)

Ty Webb;746887 wrote:So there was never been a President "handed" an election like President Obama was?

Do you not remember the 2000 election,when an entity with real power (Supreme Court) actually handed a President the election and his office(Bush)

fish82;747043 wrote:Dear sweet baby jesus....you're fucking kidding right?

Your boy lost...four times. This even after the FL Supremes allowed him to friggin' cherry pick the counties he wanted for his sham recount(s). Even then, he couldn't get it done. The ballots were again counted after the fact by the media. Guess what? Gore lost......again.



Just stop.

Ty Webb;747066 wrote:Had Katherine Harris not illegally disqualified 20,000 voters....we wouldn't have had to worry about recounts

She and Jeb were going to make sure he didn't lose Florida...and once it was clear they had cheated in Florida,the SCOTUS wasn't going to let him lose the election

David Whooly put it perfectly.....

"Do you think if W had needed a recount and asked for one....the SCOTUS would have stopped it?

Ty Webb;747066 wrote:Had Katherine Harris not illegally disqualified 20,000 voters....we wouldn't have had to worry about recounts

Ty Webb;747098 wrote:I'm starting to believe gut may be Belly

And if you honestly think President Obama is worse than W,you need to have your head examined

Of the Presidents I have studied...there are only three who have been worse than W:

LBJ
Warren Harding
Jimmy Carter

Ty Webb;746911 wrote:Also,you're okay with Bush stealing the 2000(and 2004 for that matter) election and his entire Presidency being a sham

Ty Webb;747098 wrote: And if you honestly think President Obama is worse than W,you need to have your head examined

BGFalcons82;747149 wrote:Please explain the bolded part.

stlouiedipalma;746742 wrote:That's why Richard Nixon was a better President than history shows. His domestic policy completely undermined his greatest strength, foreign policy.

iclfan2;747150 wrote:Wrong. If you think Obama doesn't suck then you need to have your head examined.

iclfan2;747150 wrote:Wrong. If you think Obama doesn't suck then you need to have your head examined.

gut;747091 wrote:
Your party got it's hero and savior elected and it must really, really suck to realize that he's even worse than the hated 'W'. Seriously, which of W's failed and misguided policies has Obama reversed?