Candidate Obama: "Promises, Promises!"

On February 11, 2008, then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made a campaign stop at College Park, MD. This was the day before the Democratic presidential primary in Maryland. At this event, Sen. Obama promised a cheering audience at the Comcast Center: "We can go ahead and tell the lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over...They will not run my White House and they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I am President of the United States of America...I've put forward a plan that every person in America will be able to get health care as good as the health care as a member of Congress...We will do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States of America." For background on the Feb. 11, 2008 rally, see: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16834/index.php and for recent questions about President Obamas allegedly all-too-cozy relationship with the big insurance companies, check out: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/60879-does-obama-have-a-secr...

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[jamesha175]

what a liar.

obama = bush 3.

[Aiden057]

Change -- what a pack of lies I voted for.

[glenwoodfin]

The Liar in Chief.

[Frampa]

Tell me lies Tell me sweet little Lies Oh nono you can't disguise Tell me lies sweet little lies

[reallypatriotic]

Pres. Obama said he would get combat troops out of Iraq and so he has. He said he would escalate in Afghanistan, and so he has. See the PolitiFact Obameter for a objective and non-partisan evaluation of Pres. Obama's actual promises against his actual performance.

[dienglee]

He suckered me too! He is pretty slick....a regular used car salesman.

[mphst6]

@Aiden057 Oh come on, back your vote. ALL politicians lie, what made you think the Democrats don't? Support your President.

[bugsz1]

Candidate Obama: "Lies, Lies!" is more like it.

[Aiden057]

@Kevin198898 Well, with all due respect. I'm completely pro-choice. The State has no business legislating what a woman may do with her own body and I would never, ever side with the conservatives on anything political. In fact, most of the so-called conservatives in the U.S. are fascists.

[Kevin198898]

@Aiden057 ii am 100 percent agreement with you on that an abortion is one impact that effected me to change to conservative!

[libertatem997]

LOL!!!!!!



[BetterJS]

Then like 90% of America wouldn't be able to vote.

The problem with America is that it is so good that even fools can scrape by... too bad these fools voted in crazies that are working hard to change that (though it seems that the Obama admin is even starting to turn them away.)