Make no mistake about it: Barack Obama is in over his head as president of these United States.
Politico.com dissects Barack Obama’s pre-election promises and discovers that he has morphed into the president that Hillary Clinton would have been had she not lost the election.
How ironic.
This country was determined not to elect a female for president (Sarah Palin) but we ended up with one anyway!
On the campaign trail, Obama belittled Sen. Hillary Clinton’s decision to defend the war by claiming he was the sole candidate to oppose the war. Clinton argued that Obama’s tight timeline to remove the troops from Iraq was unrealistic. She was right.
According to Politico.com:
Rather than withdraw all combat troops on a set timeline, Obama opted for a conditions-based withdrawal that will leave as many as 50,000 troops in the war zone at the end of 2011 — exactly the sort of drawdown he maligned Clinton for proposing.
Clinton also opposed Obama’s healthcare plans as both inadequate and ineffective. Both candidates proposed universal healthcare, but only Clinton’s healthcare plan included a mandate that all Americans be insured. Of course, Obama opposed the mandate because his puppeteers didn’t approve. Obama said Clinton’s plan would require “harsh, stiff penalties on those who don’t purchase it.”
Typically, Obama has now flip flopped on that issue. According to Politico.com, Obama is now moving toward Clinton’s position of a mandate.
His budget outline proposes a health care plan that “must put the United States on a clear path to cover all Americans.” That strongly suggests a mandate, since any volunteer system would see some opting out. As Ezra Klein reported in The American Prospect when the administration’s health care plan began to leak out, “Despite the controversy over the individual mandate in the campaign, [Obama’s team] will support it.”
Obama has always come across as a girly man who needs his wife’s (or daughter’s) approval for every decision he makes. Just like Michelle Obama wears the pants in their marriage, Hillary Clinton apparently wears the pants in the White House.
Thanks to loyal reader Michael for the link!
