We understand that candidates will make and break some campaign promises because of changing circumstances.
However, we can now say that Pres BO's "flip-flops" are historic.
They also bring into question candidate BO's integrity.
From GITMO to Iraq to now "signing statements", Pres BO has flipped on major campaign promises.
During the campaign, candidate BO blasted Pres Bush for abusing presidential powers on so called signing statements. Then he did "a Bush" on them!
During the campaign, candidate BO blasted Pres Bush for abusing presidential powers on so called signing statements. Then he did "a Bush" on them!
"It would be one thing if these full-scale reversals were on ancillary issues.
But these are fundamental.
They're about the powers of that office and the nature of our government.
And Obama made these issues the centerpiece of his campaign.
These campaign statements are nothing less than vows made to voters about how he would exercise the power he was seeking if they voted for him.
To insist during the campaign that Presidents have no power to start wars without Congress or to ignore laws the President believes are unconstitutional -- and then do exactly that once he's been vested with that power -- is a form of fraud.
And, ironically, it's exactly this behavior that breeds the cynicism that he has repeatedly identified as the central poison in our political culture.
Whatever one thinks about the policies in question on the merits, it should be impossible to defend or justify the radical inconsistency between what he pretended to believe and what he's doing."
We ask again: Was he that naive or was he cynical and just telling people what they wanted to hear?
I think that he was cynical. He was lying to all of those "yes we can screamers" desperately looking to blame everything on Pres Bush.
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