Vacilating Obama No Surprise, And IS U. S. Voter's Fault

President Obama is one of the very best orators, politicians, and one of the top five to ten most charismatic Presidents, in United States history. He is a bright man, period. These are all things that voters and the world knew, when he began (even before, with his two books and his meteoric rise to President). Yet, there are a lot of things that are not coming true, policy and primary statements that have both sides of the aisle not in the best of moods, and most of the American people act like this is a big surprise? When President Obama was a Senator in 2007, he voted and spoke very harshly about George W. Bush's attempt to raise the debt ceiling (a problem coming in the next month, again). Not only has President Obama raised the debt ceiling 9 times, since his stint in the Oval Office, but here is what he said in 2006-07: ............."The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally." The debt ceiling is one promise, flip flop, or change of mind (however, a person wishes to characterize it), it just one example. President Obama made these promises on the campaign trail (and keep in mind, these are just the policy/U. S. things he has changed on, or can't explain. There is no Rev. Wright, birth certificate stuff, or personal problems, John McCain was to gutless to go after him on, before that 2008 election): First words, "I will cut all of the taxes on those 2% of the rich, and resend the Bush Tax Cuts." Action, he extended the Bush Tax cuts, even for the wealthy 2% and Wall Street, for two years. Original stance, "I guarantee, when I am President, I will close GITMO!" Actual action, it is still open. "Those of you who will go under the government's plan to 'reform health care', will not have any changes in doctors, procedures, or see anything change." Actually, people have had doctors retire, not take Medicare/Medicaid people (I know, I am one), there has been massive cuts in what tests people can have done (like instead of my quarterly blood tests, I only get two now.), and finally he has given over 1000 actual 'waivers' to major companies (GE, almost all the car companies, banks, and all the unions, just to name a few). Then it has been said/ruled on, by multiple states and courts, the whole ObamaCare system is not Constitutional, but he will not fast track it (which would save millions, literally, of dollars in attorney and court expenses alone), and even Joe Biden has said it is going to have to be handled by the Supreme Court. Then, there is all of the debt and spending. To be fair, there is $1 billion a week (yes, a week), going to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. On the campaign trail and in his first year in office, Obama said, "I will bring or troops home from Iraq, in my first year of office! (actually banging his fist on the podium). Yet, there are still troops there, whether if they are fighting, or sitting in lawn/sand chairs. They are still there. These things do not even touch the trillion dollars of debts he racked up, in his first two years of office. Where he spent more money, straight from the playbook of people like Allinsky, Piven, and the progressives throughout history, wanting government to run the lives of the United States people, rather than the states and people taking care of their individual regions (which all vary). All of these things have transpired, but this is not a bash President Obama post. It is a "YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED" post and it is nobody's fault, but the American people. Those who did not vote, did not pay attention, said "my vote won't make a difference," or actually voted for the man (even after all the problems with Rev. Wright, his voting "present" more times than "yes/no" in the Senate, the fact he was a Jr. senator, only serving for really two years (as he was traveling to get elected, the other two years of his senatorial stint), and everyone bought the "Hope and Change" slogan, "Hope and Change We Can Believe In." Well, we all got it. It is "change." We can believe in it, because look at the country, and how the democratic party (with a super majority, in all houses, and with a Dem. President), has spent more money than all the other President's, from Washington to President G.W. Bush. If the American people do not start caring, voting (even for school boards and alderman's, the most miniscule votes), and studying all of the candidates. Well, all that can be said is, "You will get more and more "Change", but it will have all the "Hope" gone out of it. American's should have known before Obama was elected, and if they do not know now, we all deserve whatever we get. Copyright. DMAN@TheThoughtSpigot.Com http://www.TheThoughtSpigot.Com