What's at Stake

Let’s see if we can take off our rose colored glasses long enough to remember the day when Barack Obama said that he would accept public funding for his campaign. He made a promise that if John McCain accepted public financing, so would he. But that promise became totally dispensable compared to the possibility of receiving millions of dollars from grass-root fund raising. After all, every dollar received from ordinary Americans was a vote in his favor, right? What’s a promise when you can have proof that you are universally loved?

Now here’s the rub: Do the people who voted with their dollars care about broken promises?

If this candidate can go back on his word for money, can you trust anything he says?

Can you trust that he will only raise taxes for those making more than $200,000 a year? Suppose it becomes convenient to drop that cut-off a little lower? What if raising taxes for those making $100,000 a year will pay for healthcare for every single American? We have already established that promises are like pie crusts, very crumbly and easily broken, at least by this man. What if the deficit can be wiped out by raising taxes on those making $80,000? What if, what if, what if? Promises are not worth much.

Last night Obama ran a 30 minute commercial on every single network except Fox and some of the sports cable channels. He did this because he could afford it. He did this because he broke a promise. I think that the next time this candidate makes a promise, someone should make cross his heart or we’re all in deep trouble because this man can’t keep a promise for, let’s see, how did Boggie put it, for a hill of beans.


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