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Barack Obama’s expired statements
Sister Toldjah — ... Throughout the course of the year, NRO Campaign Spot’s Jim Geraghty compiled policy positions from Barack Obama which later “expired” (as he calls it). Make sure to read the entire list, and add it to the long list of evidence about how Barack Obama, contrary to his and his campaign’s assertions, is not particulary “different” than anyone else who favors “change” - a “change” in positions, that is. ...

Follow-up; expiration dates for Obama statements
No Runny Eggs — ... Jim Geraghty has kept track of most of the expired statements from Barack Obama. From Iraq to Iran, from debates to public financing, from Jerusalem to NAFTA, from Jeremiah Wright to Jim Johnson, it is a great primer to the fickle winds of most of Obama’s positions, and a fine companion piece to ...

Obama Can’t Keep His Promises, Keeps Changing his Mind
GayPatriot — ... Over at The Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty observes that all Barack Obama’s promises have an expiration date:  “Consumers should be aware that promises, pledged, and soul-healing rhetoric are only effective for a limited time; upon expiration they become ‘just words.’“ ...

Obama In His Own Words
Stones Cry Out — ... As Jim Geraghty says, “All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them.” Mary Katherine Ham, who is without a doubt one of the most talented bloggers in the center-right blogosphere, pulled together the video clips and compiled them into the video below. Hat tip: ...

Which Obama?
Betsy's Page — ... is doing the work that the RNC and McCain campaign should have done a while ago. She's compiled a whole set of statements from The One himself wherein he contradicts himself over and over and over again. Jim Geraghty has been saying this entire season that "All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them. And now he's compiled ...

This Is The Worst Trip I've Ever Been On
JustOneMinute — ... my political career and my campaign in a way that is honest and candid and straightforward and minimizes spin."It doesn't mean that I have no political sense about me, and that I'm above modulating my tones or positions as I go through ... my career. But generally speaking, I tell the truth."And that's part of the reason why I think we have been getting people who are turned off to politics attracted to my campaign. ... They sense that I don't try to trim my sails. Jim Geraghty documents Obama's non-sail trimming on the surge, public finance of elections, Iran, the Wrong ...

Change You Can Believe In
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... National Review Online’s Campaign Spot has a lengthy list of all the changes Barack Obama has made on major issues all through the campaign. There’s the change Obama has been promising! IRAQ STATEMENT: “Based on the conversations we’ve had internally as well as external reports, we believe that you can get one to two brigades out a month. At that pace, the forces would be out in approximately 16 months from the time that we began. That would be the time frame that I would be setting up,” Obama to the New York Times, November 1, 2007 EXPIRATION DATE: March 7, 2008: Obama ...

The Morning Scramble - 1/7/2009
No Runny Eggs — ... (D-NM) Taint Tentacles Part II - Rob reports that President-Elect Barack Obama (D) also got $3,300 in cash from Rubin. King Banian runs the numbers on what Obama wants to spend, and finds that the Obama planned $1 trillion deficits-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see is over 6% of total GDP. Michelle Malkin dubs it “The Generational Theft Act of 2009″. Subtle, and to the point. Shoebox proves again and again the - All statements by Barack Obama have an expiration date. All. Of. Them. ...

Eye-opening stories for Friday (OPEN THREAD)
Sister Toldjah — ... over and over again. I guess we can chalk this up as being one of many expired promises made by Obama over the course of the last year or so. But no worries. Per the Guardian: ...

Pardon Me If I Don’t Hold My Breath
No Runny Eggs — ... It’s more and more obvious that some of the Senate Republicans are out of touch with the world outside of the beltway.  If they were paying attention they would know that all of Obama’s commitments have all been determined to have an expiration date on them.  It seems that the day from statement to expiration is decreasing along with the days to Obama’s inauguration. ...

“Stimulus” passage: “not the change Obama promised”
GayPatriot — ... And with its passage, we see, as Jim Geraghty put it, All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date.  Its passage lacked the transparency Obama ...

The Obama administration and the Fairness Doctrine
Sister Toldjah — Think President Obama is planning on keeping his campaign pledge to not bring back the Fairness Doctrine, as so many other Democrats have expressed interest in doing? Guess again. Shoulda known.

Candidate versus president, Armenian edition
SCSUScholars — ... I did not vote for or against candidates last year over the recognition of the genocide; he didn't disappoint me. As Jim Geraghty (no enemy of Turkey himself) often says, all promises from President Obama come with an expiration date. ...

Obama prepares to start up military tribunals for Gitmo detainees.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... and the existing detainees are processed… what’s stopping the President from continuing to keep Gitmo operating? After all, did he not just ‘reform’ it? It’d certainly be cheaper to keep an existing facility going than to shut it down and create a new one. Fiscal responsibility is good, right? And what would any critics plan to do about it, anyway? Vote Republican? Moe Lane PS: Jim Geraghty: “All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them.” ...

Dems just say ‘No’ to Obama on Gitmo funds
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... going to have very tough decisions on where we put these people and my bill was just to say ‘not in Florida.’” Obama promised that closing Guantanamo would be one of the first official acts of his administration, but like with so many issues, the inexperienced president is learning that campaigning is easy, while governing is much more difficult. Also, it must be remembered that all of the president’s statements come with an expiration date. - JP ...

Breaking: White House to fight release of detainee photos.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — As Jim Geraghty notes, all of Obama’s promises come with an expiration date. All of them. Obama Opposes Releasing Photos of U.S. Detainee Abuse President Obama has decided not to release photos which the Pentagon had planned to released by May 28 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. President Obama has decided not to release hundreds of photos potentially showing U.S. military personnel abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the ...

Spokesperson: Kerry didn’t mean what he said
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Obama’s middle-class tax pledge headed under the bus
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... not the way the president approaches us. He is very cognizant of protecting people — middle class people, hard-working people who are trying to get along in a very difficult economy. And he will continue to represent them in these talks,” Axelrod said. “But they’re also dealing with punishing health care costs, and that’s something that we have to deal with.” Translation: Obama lied. As Jim Geraghty so presciently observed back in November: All Barack Obama ...

Climategate Implosion is Bush’s Fault
The Anchoress — ... The press, who spent a huge portion of their credibility convincing America that President Bush was a “liar” and a “power-abuser” and an “arrogant chump who made the world (read Chirac and Schroeder) hate us” and then spent the balance of their capital carrying into office a man whose every utterance comes with an expiration date, who seems to have very quickly ...