Posted on 09/20/2012 3:02:26 PM PDT by kingattax
President Obama refused to admit that he broke his 2008 promise to get an immigration bill passed in his first year in office, as he blamed Republicans and the economy for thwarting him and maintained that he “did not make a promise that I would get everything done 100 percent when I was elected.”
“I want you first of all to acknowledge that you did not keep your promise,” the Univision town hall moderator told Obama today.
“That was before the economy was on the verge of collapse,” Obama replied. “That took up a huge amount of time in the first year.” He also said he “did not expect” Republicans to oppose his immigration proposals unanimously. “I’m happy to take responsibility for being naive,” he said, even though Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate and did not need a single Republican vote to pass a bill
Obama then argued, “I did not make a promise that I would get everything done 100 percent when I was elected.”
In fact, Obama guaranteed that he would push for immigration. “I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days,” he said during his first campaign. “But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting.” (You can see him reiterating that promise in the Buzzfeed video above.)
Of course, Obama pushed the health care bill instead of immigration, which he passed with unanimous Democratic support in the Senate and Democratic-backing in the House.
Hell this guy can’t even remember what the deficit was when he OCCUPIED the WH!!!
Obama is a national embarrasment; a very dangerous one.
Funny how everything falls apart the second he is asked a real question.
David Gregory — this is how it is done. You ask questions and keep asking. What a shameful state of affairs with our own press.
"I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!"
You don't reckon those 300+ dead F&F victims had any relatives do ya?
Can’t be true. To quote a little twerp who sat on my couch and announced, “But he caaaaares about the people!!!!!!!”
What president has ever admitted that he broke his promises to voters?
It doesn’t matter. Two thirds of Hispanics will vote for Hope N Change II anyway.
But why does Obama need to pass an immigration law? Obama just enforces, or fails to enforce the law as he sees fit. Our current deportation rate was running at about 4% (maximum) even before Obama declared his unilateral Dream Amnesty.
He should have asked the Criminal-in-Chief why he exercised Executive Privilege in preventing Congress from receiving the F & F docs, as well as why the WH failed to cooperate with the IG.
“I want you first of all to acknowledge that you did not keep your promise,” the Univision town hall moderator told Obama today.
“That was before the economy was on the verge of collapse,” Obama replied. “That took up a huge amount of time in the first year.”
Univision town hall moderator, “Couldn’t you have at least sacrificed some tee time to have accomplished an immigration bill?”.
“I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!”
Not enough time.
Maybe if the snot head had spent less time on Air Force One and all his vacations and Golf trips he could have found time.
Not that I am for Amnesty, but the fact is he wasted what time he had.
Jorge Ramos: doing the job other journalists refuse to do.
Thanks kingattax.
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