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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Obama Disillusionment Watch #3: all promises have an expiration date
2008-11-12
Jim Geraghty, "The Campaign Spot" @ National Review

. . . I checked my e-mail and came across this report from CQ, too good not to share immediately:

Here's some change that supporters of President-elect Obama may not want to see: all of the policy commitments on specific issues have been removed from his transition Web site.

On Nov. 7, global health advocates noticed that some of the details of Obama's "fight global poverty" statement had been removed. Specifically, the site no longer promised to fully fund debt cancellation for the world’s poorest countries or provide the full U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Activists already were concerned, since boosting foreign aid was the one thing Obama mentioned during the campaign when asked what proposals he’d have to scale back due to the faltering economy...

By this morning, all of the issue-specific pages on the transition site had been removed from the agenda section. In its place, a statement that mentioned details but provided none at all: "The Obama Administration has a comprehensive and detailed agenda to carry out its policies."

Too bad for Obama that I went through and saved copies of his promises in most issue areas.

Everybody, all together now: "All statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them."
Posted by:Mike

#12  They weren't duped. They've got CHANGE.

But the only thing they'll wind up with is spare change.
Posted by: badanov   2008-11-12 23:11  

#11  Specifically, the site no longer promised to fully fund debt cancellation for the worldÂ’s poorest countries or provide the full U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The former has already been agreed to, and the latter are the usual United Nations slush funds for buying 5 course lunches at 6 star hotels for nepotistic appointees of 2 bit 3rd world dictators.
Posted by: phil_b   2008-11-12 22:36  

#10  Yes Jim, We are broke.
It looks like a gosh darned hope-a-rope around here.
Posted by: newc   2008-11-12 21:48  

#9  The Dems can make it happen with 435 votes in the House and 100 in the Senate; slam dunk. Duh.
Posted by: Henry Lee   2008-11-12 19:58  

#8  They weren't duped. They've got CHANGE.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-11-12 19:05  

#7  You mean 52.5% of us got duped? You mean there's no lemon law wrt President Elects? One more reason why libz are morons. It's hilarious how these idiots bought off on all the crap the street agitator sold them.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-11-12 17:45  

#6  Nonsense....! If you are TRUE believer in Change you will give him at least two terms, then rescend the antiquated Twenty-Second Amendment to that old constitution thing. There is no reason The One's tenure shouldn't be on a par with Supreme Court Justices. Come on, get with the Change program.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-11-12 17:17  

#5  What! President HopeyChangey is RENEGING ON HIS PROMISES? But, but, I thought he wasn't like all the other politicians...He's the LIGHTBRINGER! How can he do this? I'm just SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-11-12 17:10  

#4  Every disaster is a new opportunity. I see the Left working with the Right over what O wants to deliver and what he cannot deliver. We will both be pi$$ed. Common ground.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-11-12 17:10  

#3  I expect a lot of lefties are going to have hissy fits over the broken campaign promises.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-11-12 16:36  

#2  Â“That statement is no longer operative.”

-- Ron Zeigler, press secretary, Nixon administration.

I expect we will be seeing a lot more of this as reality slowly sets in.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-11-12 15:46  

#1  Do we have access to some bottomless pit of money that I don't know about? Even tax dollars and T-bills have a limit.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-12 15:15  

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