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Originally Posted by theking
If you care to answer...what things made you vote for him in 2008 that he has not done?
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Here's the ones that got me pissed:
1. During the campaign of 2008 he talked about how the Republicans had used fear to take away our freedoms and invade other countries. He promised to stop that and to reform the Patriot Act. Instead he has continued that policy and keeps re-upping the Patriot Act.
2. He made good sense to me during the campaign when he said we should reach out and talk to our enemies and that it didn't do any good to isolate them and not talk to them. He never did that either.
3. The deficit. He railed against it during the campaign. Even called Bush "unpatriotic" Then he took office and raised it faster.
4. He promised to have the entire process of enacting "health care" televised so the public (all of us) could see. Instead he immediately met behind closed doors with the big pharmaceutical companies and cut a deal to keep the U.S. paying the highest prices in the world for medications.
5. Railed against the banks during the campaign...then filled his cabinet with Goldman Sachs officials.
6. Promised to "fix" Washington and end the era of lobbyists. Then immediately reversed that as soon as he took office and there are now more lobbyists than ever before.
I'm pissed at a bunch of other stuff as well. But those were the ones that I voted for and got screwed on.