Obama Promises-No Big Deal

Every President or presidential candidate tells some real whoppers. I think they do this to solidify their base. Republicans talk about home, family and quality of life. Democrats speak to us concerning their favorites, you know, anti-abortion legislation, guns, pro-gay legislation; all that stuff. My former next door neighbor, George, put me onto a nice web site called politifact.com. It lists all of the Obama promises. It then breaks them down into kept, broken, on hold, compromised and stalled. Most of Obama's are in the stalled category. When the 'Big Guy" was in the Illinois senate he voted 'present' 95% of the time on bills requiring a yes or no. I imagine this doesn't give his base a warm and fuzzy feeling. "Stalled" means to keep kicking it on down the road. Keeping a promise isn't necessarily a cut and dried thing. For example, O-man directed the military leadership to end the war in Iraq. Well, duh! This was in the category of a promise kept. It's the same as if I told my kids to be nice to their mother.
I could list quite a few broken promises of this administration but it would be disingenuous on my part. At present the number one broken promise seems to be the Guantanamo detention center for thugs and murderers which is still up and running. It was supposed to be in ruins by the anniversary of his first year in office. It isn't. From a financial standpoint, I say, "goody gumdrops". To establish Guantanamo it cost the U.S. $150 million dollars in taxes? Some of you may not be aware that the "proposed" new detention center in Thomson, Illinois is pegged to cost $250 million and the US governmentis going to purchase it from the State of Illinois. How stupid is this? But, then again, it's the government. We have a prison that is workable and functioning successfully but we're about to spend millions more to set one up that's already built. There is a much bigger question about Guantanamo and it's directed at the media. "Hey fellas, where's the outrage"? That one thing you castigated the Bush administration for is still functioning on the south side of Cuba. Do your job and show some courage, please. There's a mountain of info and promises available that do bother me. There was a promise to end the income tax for seniors making less than 50K. Remember the whopper about no earmarks in any spending bill?Obama fibbed on that one to the tune of 9,000. And then there was the one about no lobbyists involved with the White House. ON K Street, alone, there are over 600,000 and they are as influential as seen in any administration. The biggie promise: capturing Osama bin Laden. This won't be quite so difficult. One of these days someone will stumble across his bones.