would someone tell me just what promises he has actually broken? Or are we just relying on comments by “spokesman for Obama” as being facts? I would really like to know what I have missed as to actual broken promises?

Technically, J broadnax, none… the guy is not even President yet. Tho I think that’s hard for many to believe as prominent as he is in the news. I even caught my local anchors calling him “President Obama” already. Ooops…. Only one President at a time, please.

However the first broken promise is likely to be nixing raising the taxes on the rich as he promised. He’s already said he’s “delaying” this… but still, without the POTUS title, it’s “just words”. The only tax increase he will be giving is sunsetting the Bush tax cuts… and that’s an increase on everyone, not just the wealthy.

And it’s unlikely he’s going to give the tax cuts to the middle class he promised because he’s also having a hard time giving up his spending plans. If he’s not going to take more from the “rich” to fund his plans (which already fall way short in math than the potential income *with* tax increases…), he sure isn’t going to let the “poor” keep more. He’s got to keep Congress fat and happy with taxpayer cash to accomplish his promises of universal health care, taxpayer funded preschool and college… plus adult re-eduation training on the taxpayers’ dime. Oh yes, the energy program, the expansion of federal govt departments and the creating of new ones. All require taxpayer cash.

Interesting how conservatism is “dead”, but yet everyone voted primarily for Obama because he was running on the conservative theme – tax cuts. Quite revealing, actually

It was just words that he’d immediately get us out of Iraq… except for those 50-60K troops that have to stay there. And of course, that’s already been the plan from day one… to start withdrawal when the Iraqis could take over more of their own security. That’s happening now already. Will he speed it up? Or will he slow it down if events on the ground change? We shall see.

But overall I agree… he hasn’t broken any promises yet because he has no power to do so. Right now it’s more “just words”… first from a master campaigner who catered the message to the audience, and now from a President-elect, getting the real skinny whispered in his ear with briefings.

I guess that has been my problem with him from day one. He had his kids baptized and raised at a very racist church; oh but wait, Obama didn’t really know what Rev Wright believed after almost 20 years. There was no way the surge would work, oh wait, what he really meant was that it would work all along. His property wasn’t sold to him by a straight up crook, he’s advised by some of the largest thief’s in the last several decades (his fanny mae and freddie mac crew), he doesn’t hang out with a terrorist (and work with on projects that effect our kids) that killed several people back in the 70’s. He is having to constantly defend the people closest to him. Did they all just get a bad rap? Or is like company attracted to each other?

You’re right, chicago style politics is all he is playing at. Didn’t that term come from the heavily influenced politicians that were bought out by the mob? Sounds like many things don’t change, just the names and the faces.

This is a must read from Melanie Phillips, the author of “Londonistan” and a regular contributor to the British newspaper “The Spectator.”

“…Obama is practising stealth politics with a degree of sophistication and success with which ‘even Lenin would be impressed’.”

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3064406/from-the-horses-mouth.thtml

“… he’ll continually adapt his policies and actions to the conditions on the ground” (Larry)

You mean he will be like a chicken without a head running in all directions? HUM! He will be seen as the worst President of the USA in History books in a few years from now. Obama a “shrewd” politician? LOL and re LOL!

Boy people will miss Bush!

He is a very shrewd politician, who embraced the liberal Chicago politics required to get him elected to the Illinois legislature and then to the US Senate. His ambition, however, is not to implement any particular political agenda, but to make wise pragmatic decisions, in the context of the changing economic and national defense landscapes, and secure both re-election and a place of esteem in Presidential history.

In short, Obama’s only agenda is to succeed, and he’ll continually adapt his policies and actions to the conditions on the ground. Part of his present strategy is to secure the political center for himself and therefore secure a 65% base of support among the electorate and thereby marginalize his potential GOP opponents on the far right 35% of the electorate.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA