B. Hussein Obama Grade for First Year in Office: F Minus: Abject Failure!
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in Office: F minus: Abject Failure
By Jerry McConnell
Sunday, January 3, 2010
We have just passed through the time of year which we have for many
years called the ‘Season of Joy’ in this overwhelmingly Christian
nation. However, there wasn’t much joy in this year of 2009 due to
the unwelcome presence of a foreigner who has usurped the highest
elected office of our country: the U. S. Presidency and ignores
Christ.
I have to call the occupant a usurping foreigner because he adamantly
refuses to allow his ORIGINAL birth certificate to be seen by
anybody. Some of his totally blinded and easily duped supporters
defend this action by issuing discordant invectives as abuses naming
those who call attention to it, the out of order term “birthers.” A
term that is more comical of the issuer than the issuee.
If Obama is a true American citizen, like the rest of us, he should be
proud to show his true colors. But methinks a huge can of ugly worms
would be opened to the devouring public should the real truth ever be
seen. A veritable Portrait of Dorian Gray.
This calculated lapse of common decency and respect for what he calls
his “fellow Americans” is probably the most singly responsible element
in Obama’s slide to new popularity depths with the public. It, along
with numerous incidents of breaking his word to the people who put him
in the White House, are paramount to his failing grades as he ends his
first year in office.
The number and description of his broken promises are so voluminous as
to be physically impossible to totally repeat in a column of this
size, so I will try to cover some of the principal promises that have
not been kept.
And before you ask; yes, I wlll list the very scant few promises to
the voters and general public that he has kept. In fact, that they
are so few, I will list them first. Although you will note that four
kept promises (with one pending) do not have great impact or
assistance to the greater majority of American citizens. They are
more targeted on low income people and many of probable questionable
legal citizenship.
The basic information shown for each one of the next four excerpts of
“promises kept” (and one pending) was furnished in an online column by
Adam Serwer at TheRoot.com
Credit Card Reform
In 2004, 84 percent of African Americans and 75 percent of Latinos
were carrying a credit card balance, compared to 51 percent of whites,
making them especially vulnerable to random interest rate increases,
etc. The credit card reform bill Obama signed last May prohibits
unscrupulous practices and hidden fees.
Reforming the Civil Rights Division
Adam Serwer claims the Civil Rights Division of Justice under the Bush
Administration “faltered in its responsibility to enforce anti-
discrimination laws and protect the voting rights of minorities”
theoretically because Bush appointees were “ideologically opposed to
the historical mission of the division. Since being confirmed, the
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez has declared
the Civil Rights Division ‘back in business.’ The Division has
prosecuted the largest number of hate crimes since the last time a
Democrat was in office.”
Signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant
in Gadsden, Alabama, for nearly twenty years before she discovered
that her male counterparts, often with less experience or seniority,
were making far more money than her. Nine days after being
inaugurated, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—
the first bill of his presidency—into law, which extends the statute
of limitations to 180 days after the last discriminatory paycheck,
rather than when the discriminatory wage was first set. The potential
implications in a country where African-American men and women earn 72
cents and 64 cents respectively for every dollar that white men earn
are obvious.
Reforming Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
It happened without much fanfare or notice, but an amendment to the
National Defense Authorization Act the President signed in November
2009 directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review all the
mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, the first time it has been
directed to do so since 1991.
Although this next item is not yet signed into law by the president,
it has two versions passed through the two houses of Congress; to be
resolved and merged into one satisfactory to the president.
The Health Care Bill
The Senate recently passed its version of the bill which will now go
to conference between the Senate and the House for final presentation
to the president. I have not shown any of the provisions of either
bill, suffice to say that there is no way anyone can predict what will
be in the final version.
An ever-increasing majority of American citizens are opposed to this
form of a health care reform bill and pressure on legislators while
home on the holiday leave break could even cause a wholesale
dismantling of the two bills and a renewed effort to present a bill
that would be more acceptable to the general citizenry.
As I noted above, all four of Obama’s “promises kept” apply only to
select groups of Americans and not the majority of our citizens.
Also as I noted above, the volume of “promises not kept” makes a
complete list impossible; particularly with comment regarding each
individual one. Things like his promise to “keep lobbyists out of his
Administration” could take several pages just identifying the
individual lobbyists that he has already hired to work in his
Administration. There are so many of them that Michelle Malkin has
written an entire book titled “Culture of Corruption” that is bloated
with such events. So we should probably list that one as one of the
most egregious and go on to the others as is possible.
An online site titled, Infowars.com almost a year ago listed some of
the campaign promises that Obama had already broken. This is the site
and the information in it:
Infowars.com
February 17, 2009
1. Make Government Open and Transparent
2. Make it “Impossible” for Congressmen to
slip in Pork Barrel Projects
3. Meetings where laws are written will be
more open to the public
4. No more secrecy
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a Bill
6. We will put every pork barrel project online
As you can see, just reading that short list that Infowars.com has
furnished, every one of which has been totally ignored, Obama has
established himself as one of the most “don’t-give-damn” liars of all
time in that office. Trouble is, he also keeps repeating, for
compliant press coverage promises that he has already broken with
absolutely no intention of EVER keeping them.
In just about every appropriations bill that comes before him he has
just previously promised not to sign the bill if any earmarks (pork)
is in it. I just read the other day that so far during his short term
as president there have been about 9,000 earmarks total in the bills
he has signed.
Probably the most ludicrous and downright laughable promise that he
has also made on several occasions, both before and after being
elected is the assertion that he will provide the most “transparent”
administration of any of all time. Then his very next procedure is to
take evasive actions and steps calculated to turn transparency into
the dark of night to hide any possible actions that could cause
controversy or questions.
Number 3 above is a total joke. All the major bills written to create
a new law are done, again in the dark of night, and by professionals
who are not even elected and then in many cases, they are voted on in
Congress when the time is most propitious for secrecy while voting.
These actions also impinge on Number 4 in the list also.
Of all the major bills so far during the course of this legislative
year does anyone recall when the public got FIVE days to examine a
bill before a vote took place? This was a promise Obama made that
needed cooperation from the Congress but has never been achieved.
Also never achieved is the promise made to publish all pork barrel
projects online. The next one will be the first one.
One of the reasons why I believe Obama makes and then doesn’t keep his
promises is that when he makes a promise in a public setting or news
conference gathering he is posturing and trying to look presidential.
But then later when confronted by those to whom he is obeisant and who
tell him to back off, he just conveniently forgets it; sort of like Al
Gore’s convenient lies that have made him so much money.
.o0o.
Jerry McConnell is a longtime resident of planet earth
with one half century on the seacoast of NH. He is a
community activist but promises not to run for
President and he feeds ACORN’s to the squirrels.
He can be emailed at leth...@comcast.net
tenjets
Golly, maybe Jerry McConnell should run for president and then
actually be responsible for something. As it is, just more muck in the
mire of republicanism.