I always thought a campaign promise was kind of like a candidate’s contract with the voters. He promises us he’ll do this to win our votes. We vote for him expecting him to fulfill the obligations he agreed to in his bid for office. Ed Driscoll reminds us of this pledge Democratic candidate Barack Obama made on the campaign trail:
On Tuesday, “President Barack Obama said he is ‘agnostic’ about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.” Agnostic about a firm pledge made during his campaign? That’s a pretty quick turnaround.
Guess he doesn’t have the guts to stand up to special interests and cut spending.
*Earning less the $250,000 a year
My, my, my. Yeah that qualifies as a “Read my lips” moment. So now this administration is reaching back to the FIRST Bush Administration to follow? In this case, bad move. May he suffer the same fate.
As is well known about this man now, every statement he makes comes with an expiration date.
This is another reminder of why Affirmative Action when it comes to the Presidency has failed. We didnt need a Guest Lecturer or a Community Organizer elected to the most powerful position in the world. Electing an individual who is Caucasian Kenyan has not miraculously done the country any good.
I agree. Obama has totally polluted the water for future community organizers and guest lecturers from winning the Presidency! How sad!
i know this is the line fox news is feeding you (i caught this tidbit on greta last night), but you’re somewhat misrepresenting what he said. what he said was, w/r/t to the deficit commission he’s ordering, he wants all options on the table. he said he didn’t want to rule anything out because then that sort of defeats the purpose of a commission — which is to analyze a problem and come up with solutions. he’s agnostic in the sense that he isn’t going to prejudice the commission by saying “you can’t do this” and “you can’t do that.” why don’t we wait and see what the commission comes up with and what the president endorses before we start calling him a liar. mmkay?
Ah, but you see, boob, Obama stated repeatedly that this was not under any circumstances an option.
Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 presidential election campaign that he would not raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 and households earning less than $250,000 a year. When senior White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner suggested in August that the administration might be open to going back on that pledge, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs quickly reiterated the president’s promise.
Why would Obama make that promise? Is it because he is so ignorant that he would rule out tax increases? Or, more likely, is it because he knows his black skin allows him to lie with impunity in the racist Obama Party and liberal community in which you reside?
Don’t you ever get tired of forfeiting your credibility to protect Obama’s lies, boob? Is it your liberal brainwashing that makes you incapable of criticizing Obama because of his black skin?
We’ve had special commissions on the past (base closings, social security, 9-11 come to mind).
What are we paying Congress and the President for? Will the commission’s recommendations be binding? Is it likely that they will have any suggestion other than raise taxes? Is it likely that the commission will find that the government is efficient as is humanly possible and that policy in all areas is ideal for our country?
Scale back spending to Clinton-era levels and growth rates (no chance we’ll do better than that) and then we can talk about taxes.
Aside: I heard today that benefit costs (not salary) for gummint employees (state and local, not federal) have increase about 70% per taxpayer since 2000.
I’m guessing couples making less than $250,000 a year are NOT
Agnostic about paying higher taxes when Obama promised them they would not pay ONE DIME IN HIGHER TAXES.
I say when Obama raises taxes we all send a dime to the White House.I like how liberal apologists say this was just a bargaining ploy. That shows a lot of guts by the President. Good forbid he had the onions to stand by his word, putting the “commission” on notice. Whimp.
NEWS FLASH ===== “Agnostic” is the new term for voting “Present.”
Damn it. I wasn’t fooled by his promise not to raise taxes one thin dime. Why not just raise the taxes of those that believed him?
They were the fools.
Leave the rest of us alone.
Every one who voted for Obama, pay higher taxes. You were the fools. It could be kind of a natural selection evolution type thing. Where you get punished for being duped.