The Failure of King Obama

People have started to complain a little more about Obama. Not just the Conservatives, but the disenfranchised Liberals, too. Why? Well, Obama is spending, all the while saying that his plan will reduce the deficit.
The deficit is the difference between taxes collected and money spent, the difference is made up by the National Debt. We should take in what we need to operate, and if there isn't enough, we should cut programs, not add new ones.
When most conservatives complain about Obama we hear the liberals say, "why didn't you complain about it when Bush was doing it"?
Well, we DID! The difference is, what took Bush 8 years to do, Obama is on track to do in just over 2 years. So all the complaining that happened in 8 years has been condensed into 2 for this president.

Under Bush, we doubled the National Debt in 8 years.

Under Obama, we are on track to Double the National Debt again.

It took Bush 8 years to spend 4.7 TRILLION dollars. That is 590 BILLION a year.

Obama is spending at 1.9 TRILLION a year.

This isn't the only problem with the Obama Administration, he has broken a lot of promises, we can review them here:

#1 - Open Government - Sunlight Before Signing:
Obama promised that part of his presidency would be an open government. (Manchester, N.H., on June 22, 2007), "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it"
How did he break the promise?
Obama signed his first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, on Jan. 20 – only two days after its passage.
Obama signed a second bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program just three hours after Congress passed it.
Obama signed his 1,000-page $787 billion stimulus aimed at jolting the declining U.S. economy. He did so only one business day after it passed through Congress – without allowing for five days of public comment.
Obama signed the Healthcare Reform Bill right after passage.
Any other examples?
How about ACTA? Transparent?
Or maybe the Patriot Act Extension?
How about his Birth Certificate? College Transcripts? Official Citizenship Status?
How about FOIA? Why don't they like to give out information via the proper channels?

#2 - No Jobs for Lobbyists:
On Nov. 10, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Obama declared, "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
Obama's campaign fundraising team included 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government.
And then he started the "exceptions"...
Leon Panetta, William Lynn, William Corr, Mark Patterson, Jocelyn Frye, Cecilia Munoz, Richard Verma, Charles Bolden, Naomi Walker, Ash Carter, Islam Siddiqui, Tom Daschle, Andrew McLaughlin

#3 - Earmark reform:
Has anyone even read the Health Care Reform bill? It is full of "earmarks" and "pork". That is just one example.
The $787 billion stimulus aimed at jolting the declining U.S. economy, well, Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told CNN, "there were earmarks" in the bill.
How about the $410 billion omnibus bill for 2009 with more than 9,000 earmarks totalling an estimated $7.7 billion?

#4 - Executive Signing Statements:
Obama told an audience, during his campaign, that signing statements weren't "part of [the president's] power", and criticised Bush for doing so on several occasions.
Then, as Obama was signing a $410 billion government spending bill, he signed his own signing statement.

#5 - No new taxes on those earning under $250,000 (or $200,000, depending on when he said it) -
What about those who are "happily uninsured" or "self insured"?
How about those who like to go to Tanning Salons?
Or how about those that smoke?

#6 - Bring Troops Home:
Instead, he sends more out.

#7 - Decrease the Deficit, Reduce the National Debt:
You cannot spend your way out of debt.

#8 - Bipartisanship:
Congress has never been so partisan.

#9 - Fiscal Responsibility:
90% of the bail-out money went to 30 banks (30 out of about 4 thousand banks), stimulus has failed, no accountability in spending.

#10 - And there are many more.

What worries me is outlined in 2 different statements:
Reporting in Reason Magazine, Matt Welch wrote an article, "Obama and the L-Word", it is definitely worth reading.
Basically, it speaks to character. If someone cannot tell the truth or keep a promise, or follow his oath, or whatever, then s/he has no integrity. Is that the mark of a true leader? A person without integrity?
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If we allow this kind of thing to become "common place" then when the truth does come out, people will simply say, "what does it matter"?
What does it matter if Obama lies? Bush Lied, Clinton Lied, etc. So what does it matter?
What does it matter if Obama isn't a US Citizen?
What does it matter...
If you can do something wrong, and do it long enough, then "what does it matter"?
This is the most scary political trick yet.


(most of the information for this post came from the following sites:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=91286
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzI4MjQ3Mzk4MWJkNDkwNWZlYzcwNDA3NmQyNmIxYmI=
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/the-running-obama-liebroken-promise-list/
http://conservativeamerican.org/dems-libs-socialists/dems-libs-socialists-obama/obamas-top-10-broken-promises/)