OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR~ DID YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?!!

AFTER A STINGING REBUKE FROM THE VOTERS IN MASSACHUSETTS THE WEEK BEFORE, OBAMA MET WITH LESS THAN A STELLAR REVIEW FOR THE CELEBRATION OF HIS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BEING SWORN INTO OFFICE. ALL OF HIS BROKEN PROMISES ARE NOW COMING BACK TO BITE HIM. HIS PARTY WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN PASSING EVEN ONE OF HIS BILLS THAT HE WAS SO "HELL -BENT" ON PUSHING THROUGH DESPITE THE OVERWHELMING NEGATIVE SUPPORT FROM THE VOTERS. IN FACT HIS OWN PARTY IS BEGINNING TO TURN AGAINST HIM!
UNEMPLOYMENT STANDS AT OVER 10%. REMEMBER THAT STIMULUS BILL THAT HAD TO BE PASSED ON A WEEKEND OR WE WOULD BE DOOMED TO FALL INTO ANOTHER "GREAT DEPRESSION" EVEN MORE DEVASTATING THAN THAT OF 1929?! HE PROMISED THAT IF THIS EMERGENCY MEASURE WAS PASSED THAT UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD NOT GO ABOVE 8% AND JOBLESSNESS WOULD PEAK IN SEPTEMBER. WRONG! IF ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN PART TIME WORK OR EVEN GIVEN UP LOOKING FOR A JOB ALL TOGETHER ARE FACTORED INTO THE PICTURE, WE ARE NOW LOOKING AT UP TO A DISMAL 17% UNEMPLOYMENT AND IT IS STILL RISING! GUESS THAT DIDN'T QUITE WORK OUT THE WAY OBAMA PROMISED.
"NO ONE WHO'S INCOME WAS LESS THAN $250,00.00 DOLLARS WOULD SEE THEIR TAXES GO UP BY EVEN ONE, THIN DIME!!" WE HEARD THIS PROMISE TIME AND TIME AGAIN  FROM OBAMA WHILE HE WAS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. THAT ONE DIDN'T WORK OUT TOO WELL FOR HIM EITHER.
HIS TIME LINE FOR CLOSING "GITMO" CAME AND WENT AND IT STILL REMAINS OPEN, THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOME PRISONERS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. HIS ATTY. GENERAL, ERIC HOLDER, ANNOUNCED THAT PRISONERS FROM GITMO WOULD BE BROUGHT TO NEW YORK TO STAND TRIAL IN A COURT HOUSE JUST STEPS AWAY FROM "GROUND ZERO." THIS GAVE THE TERRORISTS THE SAME RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN ALLOWING THEM TO "LAWYER UP," IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIER MIRANDA RIGHTS! THESE ARE WAR CRIMINALS, FOR GOD'S SAKE! THE PUBLIC OUT CRY AGAINST THIS PLAN HAS DEFINITELY CAUSED OBAMA SOME SLEEPLESS NIGHTS!
IN NOVEMBER MAJOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN, AN ARMY PSYCHIATRIST, WHO HAD BEEN SPOUTING OFF ABOUT HIS MUSLIM EXTREMISTS VIEWS FOR A LONG TIME, OPENED FIRE ON HIS OWN FELLOW SOLDIERS, KILLING 14 AND LEAVING 31 WOUNDED. ONE OF THOSE KILLED WAS A MOTHER AND HER UNBORN CHILD.
 ON CHRISTMAS EVE, ON A DETROIT BOUND FLIGHT FROM SWEDEN, PASSENGERS THWARTED AN ATTEMPT BY THE "UNDERWEAR BOMBER" TO BLOW UP THE PLANE CARRYING OVER 300 PASSENGERS. HIS OWN FATHER HAD WARNED AUTHORITIES ABOUT HIS EXTREMIST TIES! THESE TWO TERRORISTS HAVE BOTH "LAWYERED UP" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR MIRANDA RIGHTS!
OBAMA DID PROMISE TO "FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA." THIS PROMISE HE HAS ACTUALLY KEPT!  WE ARE SEEING A SHIFT, LED BY THE PROGRESSIVES, INTO A QUICKLY EVOLVING SOCIALISTIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT IS INVADING OUR LIVES AT AN ASTOUNDINGLY RAPID RATE! THERE WAS THE BAILOUT OF THE BANKS AND THE TAKEOVER OF GM. HE SAID "I DON'T WANT TO RUN AUTO COMPANIES,AND I DON'T WANT TO RUN BANKS. I HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO DO." THEN HE PROCEEDED TO BOOT OUT GM'S CEO AND HIS "PAY CZAR" DEVISED A PLAN TO LIMIT WAGES AND BONUSES. SO MIUCH FOR OUR FREE MARKET SOCIETY!
THE DEFICIT AND SPENDING WERE ANOTHER MAJOR TALKING POINT FOR OBAMA WHILE CAMPAIGNING, CONSISTENTLY BLAMING GEORGE BUSH FOR BEING THE MOST FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATION TO DATE. THEN HE HIMSELF WENT ON TO RAISE THE DEFICIT TO $1.7 TRILLION DOLLARS! OBAMA, THE CONGRESS, AND THE SENATE HAVE BEEN ON A MAD SPENDING SPREE EVER SINCE TAKING OFFICE! (WITH OUR TAXPAYER MONEY OF COURSE!) REMEMBER WHEN HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO A "LINE BY LINE VETO "TO CUT THE PORK OUT?!" SEEMS TO ME THERE WERE OVER 900 ITEMS IN THE "TARP BILL" CONSIDERED TO BE "PORK!"
CANDIDATE OBAMA PROMISED TO CHANGE THE WAY THE WORLD LOOKS AT AMERICA. (AS IF WE HAVE BECOME THE NEW "EVIL EMPIRE," INSTEAD OF THE CHAMPIONS OF FREEDOM THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN!) IN THE SPRING OF 2009 HE TOURED EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD ON WHAT HAS NOW BECOME KNOWN AS HIS "APOLOGY TOUR." IN FRANCE HE SAID WE WERE "ARROGANT" AND AT TIMES EVEN "DERISIVE." IN EUROPE HE TOLD THE CROWDS, WHO HAD GATHERED BY THE THOUSANDS, THAT THERE WERE TIMES WHEN WE LOOKED DOWN ON EUROPE AND FAILED TO APPRECIATE THEIR LEADING ROLE IN THE WORLD. IN TURKEY HE SAID THAT "IN MANY WAYS THE TRUST THAT BINDS TURKEY AND THE U.S. HAS BEEN STRAINED AS IT HAS IN MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES. HE ALSO SAID "LET ME SAY THIS AS CLEARLY AS I CAN. THE UNITED STATES HAS NEVER BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE AT WAR WITH ISLAM." (REMEMBER UNTIL RECENTLY WE HAVE NEVER BEEN AT WAR , PERIOD! FORGET ABOUT 9-11 AND NEVER MIND THAT AL QUEDA HAS BEEN OUT TO DESTROY US AT ALL COSTS!) AND WE CAN'T FORGET THAT BOW TO THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA OR OBAMA TOUCHING THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND'S SHOULDER. FIRST LADY, MICHELLE OBAMA TOOK IT ONE STEP FURTHER AND HUGGED HER! IN A MEETING WITH LEADERS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA HE SAID "AT TIMES AMERICA HAS BEEN DISENGAGED" AND PRETTY MUCH CALLED US DICTATORIAL.
SO THAT IS A SMALL SUMMARY OF OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE. IS OUR ECONOMY BETTER? DO WE HAVE REAL TRANSPARENCY? WHAT HAPPENED TO C-SPAN? ARE WE SAFER? HAVE WE SEEN THE CHANGES WE EXPECTED? IS OBAMA REALLY THE PRESIDENT YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE VOTING FOR? DOES THE FUTURE OF AMERICA LOOK BRIGHTER FOR OUR CHILDREN?