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 MM> Hello everybody.

 MM> Here's an opinion piece by Chuck Green who writes "Greener
 MM> Pastures" for the Denver Post Aurora Sentinel...one of the
 MM> more liberal papers in the country. Additionally, Mr. Green
 MM> is a lifelong Democrat...so this is rather a stunning
 MM> piece...

 No, not really! So he's a democrats? WoW!

 MM> Obama is victim of Bush's failed promises!

 MM> Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records
 MM> during his first term in office:

 MM> Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number
 MM> of broken promises ever.

 Bush set the first two records in his term. Inflation alone
 makes that certain.

 The third is BS. Things that haven't been done yet are not
 broken promises, unless he set a deadline.

 MM> Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of
 MM> agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity
 MM> ever!

 More BS. Bush underwent a similar dive in popularity. Bush's
 speeches were just as self serving. What failures? Which are
 "agenda-setting"?

 MM> Wow! Talk about change.

 ...

 MM> the hopes and dreams of millions. To his devout followers,
 MM> it was inconceivable that a year later his administration
 MM> would be gripped in self-imposed crisis.

 So, 15 voters found it inconceivable? The other tens of millions
 who voted against Bush were not all that concerned.

 MM> Of course, they don't see it as self-imposed. It's all
 MM> George Bush's fault !

 And that part is the lie.

 MM> George Bush, who doesn't have a vote in congress and who no
 MM> longer occupies The White House, is to blame for it all.

 Only the economy. That Obama inherited. Oh, and the wars... and
 Gitmo... hmmm... Bush did more damage than I thought of.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to put all bills on the White
 MM> House web site for five days before signing them.

 Reread the promise. That's not what he said.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to have the congressional health
 MM> care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.

 Where did he promise the *CONGRESSIONAL* negotiations would be
 anywhere?

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end earmarks.

 When did he promise to end earmarks?

 Note, when I ask those questions you can read that as calling
 the original claim fraudulent. IOW, the claim is phony.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to keep unemployment from rising
 MM> above 8 percent.

 When did he make any such promise?

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to close the detention center at
 MM> Guantanamo in the first year.

 That one I do hold against him.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to make peace with direct, no
 MM> precondition talks with America 's most hate-filled enemies
 MM> during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of
 MM> global cooperation.

 He said he was willing to talk. He never promised peace, or that
 the others would be willing to talk.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end the hiring of former
 MM> lobbyists into high White House jobs.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end no-compete contracts with
 MM> the government.

 Ah, the Bush record, more no-compete money spent than ever
 before.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to disclose the names of all
 MM> attendees at closed White House meetings.

 Did he make any such promise?

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, for a new era of bipartisan
 MM> cooperation in all matters.

 Obama did cooperate in a bi-partisan manner. The Republicans
 didn't.

 MM> He broke Obama's promise, to have chosen a home church to
 MM> attend Sunday services with his family by Easter.

 Doesn't he?

 MM> Yes, it's all George Bush's fault! President Obama is
 MM> nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush
 MM> administration.

 Anyone who writes anything like that is a slimeball.

 It's really amazing that the can't find anything better than
 that, and people actually believe it.

 ...

 MM> Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear
 MM> bomb and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel .

 Another lie, a big one. The US intel agencies, and even the
 Israeli intel say Iran is *NOT* working on building a bomb.

 And why would they negotiate a treaty with Israel, and why
 should that be a priority for us?

 MM> North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime, and
 MM> integrity would have been restored to the federal
 MM> government.

 The smears are flying far and wide.

 MM> Oh, and did I mention what it would be like, if the
 MM> Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry
 MM> Reid, didn't have the heavy yoke of George Bush around
 MM> their necks? There would be no ear marks, no closed-door

 Who ever said there would be no earmarks? Certainly not Obama.
 Nor should he, many earmarks are legitimate. Very much so.

 MM> drafting of bills, no increase in deficit spending, no

 When you can explain why this country has not been out of debt
 one singe year since it came into existance, then you might have
 something to say worth listening to.

 Deficit is the proven way of getting out of an economic
 collapse.

 MM> special-interest influence (unions), no vote buying (

 Unions are good.

 MM> Nebraska, Louisiana ).

 Gotty arrest those republicans.

 ...

 MM> All the broken promises, all the failed legislation and

 What broken promises? Haven't seen much in that line yet.

 ...

 MM> Take for example the attempt of Eric Holder, the
 MM> president's attorney general,
 MM> to hold terrorists' trials in New York City . Or his
 MM> decision to try the Christmas Day underpants bomber as a
 MM> civilian.

 Both good decisions. Too bad he didn't stand behind the first
 one.

 MM> Two disastrous decisions.

 Oh, you got that wrong and I hadn't even looked at it yet.

 MM> Certainly those were bad judgments based on poor advice
 MM> from George Bush!

 George Bush never had an idea that good.

 MM> Need more proof?

 ...

 MM> Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for
 MM> something / anything?

 He did, Killing Bin Laden.

 MM> (Chuck Green is a veteran Colorado journalist and former
 MM> editor-in-chief of The Denver Post.)


 MM>   It's Bush's Fault!

 Bush built his 2004 presidential campaign around the American
 defeat on 9-11. Now republicans complain because Obama even
 mentions the ultimate victory with the death of Bin Laden.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Republicans celebrate the US Defeat on 9-11, not the US victory on 5-2-10
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