The old story of the little boy who cried wolf keeps coming to mind. You know the story. The little boy would try to scare people by yelling “wolf”; but he did it so often that no one listened to him and then, one day, a real wolf showed up and the boy yelled for help and no one believed him. The wolf got the little boy.
Lately I’ve begun to wonder: didn’t President Barack Obama have a parent or grandparent tell him that story of the wolf? Didn’t someone tell him about the dangers of sending up the scare flag too often?
Consider that President Obama told the nation that Congress needed to pass his huge stimulus package or the country would fail, unemployment would surge past 8% and more people would lose their homes.
Congress passed the multi billion dollar stimulus package and unemployment has shot up into the double digits, more people are losing their homes to foreclosures, businesses are closing, and more and more people are wondering just where the stimulus went.
And now the president, in an ABC interview with Charles Gibson, has again cried “wolf”.
President Obama told Gibson that if congress fails to pass his health care legislation – if it fails to green light spending one sixth of the nation’s economy on this health care legislation – the nation will go bankrupt!
What?
If Congress fails to approve spending over a trillion dollars on a health care plan – that takes thousands of pages to describe and no one can describe – the United States of America will go bankrupt? The proverbial wolf is at the door again?
I think not. And a growing number of Americans think not. More and more people are waking up to the fact that, although President Barack Obama is charming, charm only works when coupled with honesty, integrity and follow through on promises made.
So far, the President’s track record doesn’t look so good.
When he campaigned for the presidency, Mr. Obama promised to bring all our servicemen home, yet now he is sending more of our young men and women into war.
He promised to keep unemployment below 8%. It’s over 15% in many cities.
He promised to bring transparency into government and to put all bills on the Internet for thirty days before he’d sign anything. Not one has gone up on the Internet.
He promised that all Congressional meetings on the budget would be aired on C-Span and not behind closed doors.
They’re still behind closed and locked doors.
He promised to keep lobbyists out of government, yet he’s hired many big lobbyists for top government jobs.
He promised to close Gitmo prison and restore America’s prestige around the world. Instead, he’s just moving the terrorist detainees to Illinois and naming the prison something else.
Ever hear of the shell game?
Or is this more aptly called “ The Chicago Way”?
Yeah, that's him, right there, in 'Dopenhagen', looking angry, NO, more like a little brat acting out.
But he does not look healthy. He looks quite dehydrated and, frankly, no longer "young".
Could it be all the arugula from the lead-tainted White House garden might be taking its toll?
Look closely...his shirt collar fits very loosely.
Where is the report on the physical examination of this President?
