What happened to Obama's 16-month promise??

[ksdb]

Is that what Americans voted for: a guy who keeps moving the goal posts farther and farther back as his administration moves along??

Obama says US on schedule to leave Iraq

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that despite continuing violence in Iraq, the U.S. is on schedule to remove all troops by the end of 2011.

Standing in the Rose Garden alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Obama said the nations were in the midst of a "full transition" that would be based on mutual interest and respect.

It was Obama's first meeting with al-Maliki at the White House. He met with him in Iraq in April.

Obama said that the U.S. withdrawal would "send an unmistakable signal that we will keep our commitments with the Iraqi people."

The two leaders met three weeks after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in advance of the full withdrawal.

Obama said the United States does not seek any military bases in Iraq and makes no claim on Iraqi oil resources or territory.


link to story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_al_maliki)

[Camp]

No military bases is a big mistake.

I will add it to the list.

[mozalf]

Sean is on a roll on his radio show. Listing a litany of democrat corruption and now racism that is being exhibited by them. Keep it up! It's time to shed light on the democrat culture of corruption we've got and have had running Washington for many, many, many years.

[SFC(R)L]

It Wasn’t Supposed to Be This Hard
Peter Wehner - 07.22.2009 - 1:29 PM
When Barack Obama assumed office, his supporters viewed him as a man of preternatural talents: highly intelligent and unusually reasonable, disciplined and competent, open to different points of view, committed to bipartisanship and to achieving common ground, an agent of reform and comity, cool and graceful, trans-ideological and groundbreaking. Governing is never easy, especially when facing an economic crisis — but Obama was extraordinary, we were told, a once-in-a-lifetime figure, wise beyond his years, compared to Lincoln and to God, destined for greatness, The One. Or so the story went.

Suddenly, six months into his presidency, Obama is beginning to look overmatched by events, on almost every front. More than 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs since Obama took office. Unemployment is significantly worse than Obama told us it would be, and it’s going to get worse still. The deficit and debt are bursting like exploding stars, with no end in sight. The stimulus package was a three-quarters-of-a-trillion-dollar bust. The cap-and-trade legislation, ill-conceived and unpopular, will probably never become law — though House Democrats who voted for it may well pay a high political price for having done so. And Obama’s bailout and management of the auto industry looks increasingly unwise.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/74032

This captures it for me...a lot of easily duped persons voted to put this guy in charge thinking he was direct from heaven.

He didn't fool me, and now we see the horrible consequences of hiring the unqualified and unprepared.

Not to mention daring to contradict the annointed one.

He's just a statist bent on putting the government in charge of lives, and he must be stopped.

[komobu]

It Wasn’t Supposed to Be This Hard
Peter Wehner - 07.22.2009 - 1:29 PM
When Barack Obama assumed office, his supporters viewed him as a man of preternatural talents: highly intelligent and unusually reasonable, disciplined and competent, open to different points of view, committed to bipartisanship and to achieving common ground, an agent of reform and comity, cool and graceful, trans-ideological and groundbreaking. Governing is never easy, especially when facing an economic crisis — but Obama was extraordinary, we were told, a once-in-a-lifetime figure, wise beyond his years, compared to Lincoln and to God, destined for greatness, The One. Or so the story went.

Suddenly, six months into his presidency, Obama is beginning to look overmatched by events, on almost every front. More than 2.5 million Americans have lost their jobs since Obama took office. Unemployment is significantly worse than Obama told us it would be, and it’s going to get worse still. The deficit and debt are bursting like exploding stars, with no end in sight. The stimulus package was a three-quarters-of-a-trillion-dollar bust. The cap-and-trade legislation, ill-conceived and unpopular, will probably never become law — though House Democrats who voted for it may well pay a high political price for having done so. And Obama’s bailout and management of the auto industry looks increasingly unwise.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/74032

This captures it for me...a lot of easily duped persons voted to put this guy in charge thinking he was direct from heaven.

He didn't fool me, and now we see the horrible consequences of hiring the unqualified and unprepared.

Not to mention daring to contradict the annointed one.

He's just a statist bent on putting the government in charge of lives, and he must be stopped.

Remember Jessica Alba saying "Obama is the best president ever. Don't you think Obama is the best president we've ever had?" ...On the night of his inauguration!!!

[SFC(R)L]

Remember Jessica Alba saying "Obama is the best president ever. Don't you think Obama is the best president we've ever had?" ...On the night of his inauguration!!!

No, actually, as I have tried very hard not to expose myslef to that sort of thing.

[Paula Phillips]

His agenda is clear, he wants to remake the government into a similar program as ACORN, which is now being investigated for fraud, extortion, tax evasion plus much more...It would be wise to also investigate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and those connected to the mortgage crisis as well as the Federal Reserve and many more departments in our government for greed and coruption for business as usual politics.