Even his promise of universal health care was an attempt on some level to keep such a promise.

But then there's the little issue of how to pay for it. And on this point President Obama has signaled the probability that he will now break the biggest campaign promise he made.

He didn't say it once, he said it thousands of times, hundreds of times each day: "That in an Obama administration no one making under (fill in the amount - it shifted more than once) he would not raise taxes on Americans making under that amount--not even a single dime."

He promised it from Des Moines to New York, New Hampshire to Los Angeles, from Detroit to Houston. If you made under $200,000 you would not be taxed "a single dime" more under an Obama administration.

He falsely argues that the punitive single largest tax-increase in American history ("Cap and Trade") would not be felt by the taxpayer paying under $200,000 a year. He does so claiming that corporations would be the ones to foot the bill on the penalties they would be forced to pay for imaginary carbon credits. Yet he failed to notify the American taxpayer that companies never pay taxes. Companies do one of two things when they are assigned a new tax. They pass the cost on to the customer, or they go out of business. Since most corporations are not looking to go out of business and thus lay off their entire workforce, they are forced to pass that tax on to the customer, every time, without exception.

But aside from "Cap and Trade" the White House press corps specifically drew blood in the water on the health care expense two weeks ago, forcing the administration to admit that if it were in fact necessary, President Obama would raise the taxes on those making less than $200,000 a year to make it happen. Thus the biggest promise repeated over and over in every corner of the nation became as meaningless as a batch of cotton candy. It disappeared the moment it hit the tongue.

It is the historical equivalent of President George H.W. Bush running against Governor Clinton. He had promised, "Read my lips, no new taxes" only to go down in historic defeat for having to go back on such a promise.

For President Obama "Not one single dime" is the new standard, and given his approval rating slip to 49% in Ohio this week, and his "strongly approve" numbers trailing his "strongly disapprove" numbers by 8%, it appears that those who make under $200,000 are beginning to understand that they've been had.

Of course he also promised the unemployment number would never go above 8% on his watch.

But I digress...