I saw this the other day and found it interesting. Just some more examples of "candidate" Obama differing dramatically from President Obama. It will be interesting if he starts to switch back into candidate mode now.
It's interesting because to the extent that his administration has been successful, it has been largely by not following through on his own campaign promises. Guantanamo was not closed. We got valuable information out of Guantanamo. Obamacare is a reality. Because he did not work across the aisle to achieve consensus, and because he did not bring "change" to the political system. Change would have been a common sense, plain English bill that legislators on both sides had carefully considered, and had come to a consensus on. Instead, you have leading Democratic lawmakers saying that they will find out what's in the bill once it is passed. You have the President posing for "bi-partisan" photo ops with Republican lawmakers, telling them his plans, and refusing to consider their suggested changes.
We are still in the recession, and the two wars in the Middle East. We have also gotten involved in Libya. Guantanamo is still operational. Politics in America is still a game of partisan chicken now that one house is controlled by the GOP. Has Obama fulfilled any of his campaign promises?
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