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Obama vowed to go line by line through the budget, and would not except wasteful earmarks. that was during the campaign. now he says he will sign this current budget that contains 9000 earmarks because "we need to move forward"

Is this the hill you think he should die on at this time? There is a worldwide financial crisis, threat of depression (if we are not there already) and two wars going on, and I think those more important to his attention at this time (to any President's attention, be it GOP or Dem). Should everything be called to a halt to line-item less than 2% of spending? This budget is only going to get us through September 2009 anyway. All earmarks do not equal pork, nor waste. How much of the 9000 earmarks are truely waste? (I have no idea) The GOP is responsible for 40% of the 7.7 billion in earmarks in this budget, the Dems 60%, and this 7.7 is less than 2% of the spending.

I'm willing to wait and see how Obama handles the next budget. The first real budget that will be within his scope as President (this one was created before he was elected)

during the campaign he made a huge deal how he would not hire lobbyists and that he would have none in his Whitehouse. the fact is at last count he has made 19 exceptions to this ironclad promise.

Obama has the strictist ethics requirements ever. Period. He gets credit for that. The campaign promise was NOT that he would not hire lobbyists. It is a bit more complicated than that (former lobbyists can do no lobbying while working for the administration, nor have association with the groups they formerly lobbied, etc). I know of two exceptions to those rules (in defense and health) - the only justification is that both candidates are supported strongly for their experience and skill by both GOP and Dem.

the timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is the one the Petraeus outlined some time back under Bush. Obama has added nothing to this matter other than make a big press conference and announce it pubicly and take credit for keeping his campaign pledge, which he didn't. he did at one point advocate a much faster timetable.

What was the campaign pledge you are holding him to breaking? The faster timetable? Is he allowed to adjust based upon information he is allowed to gain only after he is President, or not?

he made a big deal recently announcing that he was redirecting a particular strike force, that had been training for missions in Iraq for months, to Afghanistan. this was supposedly another campaign promise kept, to pull out of Iraq and re-focus on Afghanistan.

He is pulling out of Iraq and refocusing on Afghanistan. You are basing a "failure" on one unit? Let's look at all the units, and all the deployments.

Cannon said, "Do I have to make a list of things Obama or any other politician has said that they either have done a 180 degree reversal on or were simply not true? His ACTIONS speak louder than his words"

I don't see a complete lie or failure in the least. I see a very intelligent man trying very hard, in very difficult times, to adhere to and implement the course and idealogy he promised.

I am not very liberal, have always been GOP, but voted for Obama and am darn glad he's President versus McCain and Caribou Barbie. Do I support everything Obama wanted to do? Nope. Do I support the entire Democratic platform? Not in the least. I find a few planks downright scary. Did I figure, when I voted, that Obama wouldn't be able to do some of his campaign promises over his eight years for this reason or that? Yup. Like all the other Presidents I've voted for. Do I hold every candidate to every single campaign promise if elected? No. Things change. Do I want Obama to fail? Of course not - that would be stupid and ridiculous for my country. Our country is in too big a mess to put partisan politics before country. I want Obama to succeed. Greatly and impressively and repeatedly.

I find Limbaugh-like partisan nitpicking, a couple months into Obama's Presidency, the obvious Obama-hate, outside of discussion of these terrifying and major issues we have, and discussion of possible various solutions, to be narrow-minded anti-country idiocy.

I have lived through several Presidents I haven't voted for. The election of two of them was downright scary to me. One supports the country, and the President, and goes forward.