(with apologies to Crayola, Inc)
Posted on 09/23/2013 12:33:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
President Obama vowing that Syria would “cross a red line” by using chemical weapons is far from the only marker he’s laid down or promise he’s tried to keep since running for president in 2008.
The president has made more than 500 campaign-related promises alone. And just last week he re-drew a line in the sand for congressional Republicans flirting with shutting down the government over his Affordable Care Act and looking for spending cuts as part of a separate deal to increase the federal debt limit.
“That’s not happening,” Obama said. “I will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States.”
The president has had mixed success in keeping that vow over the past few years.
He managed in January to get the debt ceiling raised without yielding to Republicans’ demand for accompanying spending cuts.
However, in 2011 he failed to reach a “grand bargain” with House Republicans over the debt ceiling, forcing both sides to eventually accept a series of drastic spending cuts known as sequester.
“The sequester is not something that I've proposed,” Obama announced in his final 2012 presidential debate. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”
PolitiFact -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning project of the Tampa Bay Times that has essentially tracked all of the president’s major promises -- ruled Obama’s argument “mostly false.”
“It was Obama’s negotiating team that came up with the idea,” wrote PolitiFact.
The project finds that Obama has kept 241, or 45 percent, of his roughly 500 campaign promises, while breaking 118...
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The president appeared to try to blur the red line when he said earlier this month: "I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line. … My credibility isn't on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line."
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Roughly describes his whole dog and pony show.
The flip-flop that I remember, that no one else seems to bring up, is that Obama made it clear in debate with HRC that he was against mandatory purchase of health insurance coverage in health care reform. HRC stated that it was necessary for it to work at all. Ultimately, Obama changed his tune.
Unfortunately there are still too many in the GOP trying to help Obama..esp on ObamaCare, Illegal Alien Amnesty, and helping the Islamic Terrorists in Syria. They are more than willing to aid his red line problem
No problemo for Comrade obamatollah...
1. Communists lie
2. muslimes practice taqiyya
(with apologies to Crayola, Inc)
Obama should always wear that bike helmet, always
Yeah, and he’s already stated that this is just the first step to single payer, ie, a completely socialist/communist system of healthcare. There goes our free nation.
And if Obamacare is allow to proceed by the Republican House you can bet it will fail. It’s already a trainwreck. A complete flustercluck. They built it to fail so they can take the next step to single payer. And that marks the end of constitutionally limited government and, ultimately, if we cannot get it overturned and repealed, the end of our constitutional Republic!
The House now bears the sole responsibility and constitutional power and awesome duty to block it, no matter how long or how many passed and rejected resolutions it takes, to save our beloved constitutional Republic.
As James Madison stated in Federalist No. 58, the House alone holds the power of the purse and the power to deny unconstitutional, out of control, runaway government.
Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of the House, do your sworn duty to the constitution and to the people who elected you!!
For God and country!
Long live the Republic!
Prayers up!
LOL .. always !
This can’t be right. Just last year our tough guy president said this: “I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as President of the
United States, I don’t bluff.”
Surely he was bring truthful.
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