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    MM> Hello everybody.   
      
    MM> Here's an opinion piece by Chuck Green who writes "Greener   
    MM> Pastures" for the Denver Post Aurora Sentinel...one of the   
    MM> more liberal papers in the country. Additionally, Mr. Green   
    MM> is a lifelong Democrat...so this is rather a stunning   
    MM> piece...   
      
    No, not really! So he's a democrats? WoW!   
      
    MM> Obama is victim of Bush's failed promises!   
      
    MM> Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records   
    MM> during his first term in office:   
      
    MM> Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number   
    MM> of broken promises ever.   
      
    Bush set the first two records in his term. Inflation alone   
    makes that certain.   
      
    The third is BS. Things that haven't been done yet are not   
    broken promises, unless he set a deadline.   
      
    MM> Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of   
    MM> agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity   
    MM> ever!   
      
    More BS. Bush underwent a similar dive in popularity. Bush's   
    speeches were just as self serving. What failures? Which are   
    "agenda-setting"?   
      
    MM> Wow! Talk about change.   
      
    ...   
      
    MM> the hopes and dreams of millions. To his devout followers,   
    MM> it was inconceivable that a year later his administration   
    MM> would be gripped in self-imposed crisis.   
      
    So, 15 voters found it inconceivable? The other tens of millions   
    who voted against Bush were not all that concerned.   
      
    MM> Of course, they don't see it as self-imposed. It's all   
    MM> George Bush's fault !   
      
    And that part is the lie.   
      
    MM> George Bush, who doesn't have a vote in congress and who no   
    MM> longer occupies The White House, is to blame for it all.   
      
    Only the economy. That Obama inherited. Oh, and the wars... and   
    Gitmo... hmmm... Bush did more damage than I thought of.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to put all bills on the White   
    MM> House web site for five days before signing them.   
      
    Reread the promise. That's not what he said.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to have the congressional health   
    MM> care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.   
      
    Where did he promise the *CONGRESSIONAL* negotiations would be   
    anywhere?   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end earmarks.   
      
    When did he promise to end earmarks?   
      
    Note, when I ask those questions you can read that as calling   
    the original claim fraudulent. IOW, the claim is phony.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to keep unemployment from rising   
    MM> above 8 percent.   
      
    When did he make any such promise?   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to close the detention center at   
    MM> Guantanamo in the first year.   
      
    That one I do hold against him.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to make peace with direct, no   
    MM> precondition talks with America 's most hate-filled enemies   
    MM> during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of   
    MM> global cooperation.   
      
    He said he was willing to talk. He never promised peace, or that   
    the others would be willing to talk.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end the hiring of former   
    MM> lobbyists into high White House jobs.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to end no-compete contracts with   
    MM> the government.   
      
    Ah, the Bush record, more no-compete money spent than ever   
    before.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to disclose the names of all   
    MM> attendees at closed White House meetings.   
      
    Did he make any such promise?   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, for a new era of bipartisan   
    MM> cooperation in all matters.   
      
    Obama did cooperate in a bi-partisan manner. The Republicans   
    didn't.   
      
    MM> He broke Obama's promise, to have chosen a home church to   
    MM> attend Sunday services with his family by Easter.   
      
    Doesn't he?   
      
    MM> Yes, it's all George Bush's fault! President Obama is   
    MM> nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush   
    MM> administration.   
      
    Anyone who writes anything like that is a slimeball.   
      
    It's really amazing that the can't find anything better than   
    that, and people actually believe it.   
      
    ...   
      
    MM> Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear   
    MM> bomb and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel .   
      
    Another lie, a big one. The US intel agencies, and even the   
    Israeli intel say Iran is *NOT* working on building a bomb.   
      
    And why would they negotiate a treaty with Israel, and why   
    should that be a priority for us?   
      
    MM> North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime, and   
    MM> integrity would have been restored to the federal   
    MM> government.   
      
    The smears are flying far and wide.   
      
    MM> Oh, and did I mention what it would be like, if the   
    MM> Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry   
    MM> Reid, didn't have the heavy yoke of George Bush around   
    MM> their necks? There would be no ear marks, no closed-door   
      
    Who ever said there would be no earmarks? Certainly not Obama.   
    Nor should he, many earmarks are legitimate. Very much so.   
      
    MM> drafting of bills, no increase in deficit spending, no   
      
    When you can explain why this country has not been out of debt   
    one singe year since it came into existance, then you might have   
    something to say worth listening to.   
      
    Deficit is the proven way of getting out of an economic   
    collapse.   
      
    MM> special-interest influence (unions), no vote buying (   
      
    Unions are good.   
      
    MM> Nebraska, Louisiana ).   
      
    Gotty arrest those republicans.   
      
    ...   
      
    MM> All the broken promises, all the failed legislation and   
      
    What broken promises? Haven't seen much in that line yet.   
      
    ...   
      
    MM> Take for example the attempt of Eric Holder, the   
    MM> president's attorney general,   
    MM> to hold terrorists' trials in New York City . Or his   
    MM> decision to try the Christmas Day underpants bomber as a   
    MM> civilian.   
      
    Both good decisions. Too bad he didn't stand behind the first   
    one.   
      
    MM> Two disastrous decisions.   
      
    Oh, you got that wrong and I hadn't even looked at it yet.   
      
    MM> Certainly those were bad judgments based on poor advice   
    MM> from George Bush!   
      
    George Bush never had an idea that good.   
      
    MM> Need more proof?   
      
    ...   
      
    MM> Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for   
    MM> something / anything?   
      
    He did, Killing Bin Laden.   
      
    MM> (Chuck Green is a veteran Colorado journalist and former   
    MM> editor-in-chief of The Denver Post.)   
      
      
    MM>   It's Bush's Fault!   
      
    Bush built his 2004 presidential campaign around the American   
    defeat on 9-11. Now republicans complain because Obama even   
    mentions the ultimate victory with the death of Bin Laden.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... Republicans celebrate the US Defeat on 9-11, not the US victory on 5-2-10   
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