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Obama is adept at playing THE VICTIM though so I think he will be able to get away with anything even if he does not deliver and the media will probably protect him.
They will blame the Bush administration for at lest 4 years. 8 years if he gets re-elected!
Clinton blamed Bush senior for forcing him to renege on his campaign promise to raise taxes on the wealthiest two percent of income earners. Those of us who are old enough will remember "Bush cooked the books!" as his rallying cry.
When Clinton reneged on his promise to raise taxes on only the top income earners, folks making as little as $20,000/yr had their tax rates increased from 11% to 15%, a 36% increase in tax liability! I expect far worse from Obama.
CLINTON'S ECONOMIC PLAN: The Campaign; Gambling That a Tax-Cut Promise Was Not Taken Seriously
By MICHAEL KELLY,
Published: February 18, 1993
In selling his economic plan, President Clinton is gambling that voters never took seriously his campaign promise to lower the tax burden of the middle class and will respond favorably to an aggressive pitch based on equal measures of hope, fear and class revenge.
After months of polling and research, Mr. Clinton's top political advisers say they are convinced that middle-class voters will support higher taxes. The advisers say the voters will see the new taxes as the price of great improvements in Government service and as inflicting a just punishment on the rich who profited during the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
There is a lot of evidence in recent polls to support these hopes, but they rest on a risky political premise: the assumption that middle-class voters will forgive Mr. Clinton his broken promise of tax relief or will accept the contention that he did not unconditionally promise such relief.
"Voters never believed in the middle-class tax cut, because they have never seen anyone get a tax cut," said Mr. Clinton's chief poll taker, Stanley Greenberg. "They always believed their taxes would go up whether Bill Clinton became President or George Bush was President.
Right now it seems that no one can even question Obama in any way,
The presence of this thread and so many like it would seem to contradict your own argument.
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and his followers worship him like some kind of god.
How silly.
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That's bad because no political leader should be above questioning and no political leader should be worshipped.
Even sillier, as I pointed out, there hasn't been a dearth of questioning and just on the face of it would seem rather bizarre for his supporters to begin questioning a candidate, 2 days after they elected him an 2 months before he takes office.
I suppose that you are hoping for some demonstration of buyers remorse, but we would prefer to take the package home, open it, plug it in and see if it works as advertised first. So, far we've just put the money down on the counter.
We've seen the GOP collapse and now the DNC is next to go. Obama just speeded things up.
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