{"id":2154,"date":"2009-11-17T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:14:39","slug":"thank-goodness-for-some-broken-obama-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2154\/thank-goodness-for-some-broken-obama-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank Goodness For Some Broken Obama Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since he was inaugurated last January, Barack Obama has broken almost all of the promises he earnestly made as a candidate, from pledges of bipartisanship to not raising taxes on anyone earning under $250,000.\u00a0 Indeed, he even gave a preview to his future behavior when he jettisoned his pledge to abide by public campaign finance limits as soon as he secured the Democrats&#8217; nomination.<\/p>\n<p>But not all of Obama&#8217;s broken promises are bad.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, he promised immediate action to impose climate change hysteria as official federal policy, saying, &#8220;now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all.\u00a0 Delay is no longer an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not.\u00a0 This past weekend, Obama announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/world-news\/obama-says-no-climate-change-deal-at-copenhagen_425019.html\" target=\"_blank\">there would be no international carbon cap-and-tax accord<\/a> when world leaders meet in Copenhagen, Denmark next month.\u00a0 That&#8217;s good news for strapped American taxpayers and businesses, but unwelcome news for sniveling Europeans, who are doing their left-wing Joe Wilson imitation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,661678,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">branding Obama a liar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We would&#8217;ve preferred that Obama join Europeans in celebrating the Berlin Wall&#8217;s demise last week, but we can at least be thankful for the small blessing that he&#8217;s also offending the Euro global-warming alarmists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since he was inaugurated last January, Barack Obama has broken almost all of the promises he earnestly made as a candidate, from pledges of bipartisanship to not raising taxes on anyone earning under $250,000.\u00a0 Indeed, he even gave a preview to his future behavior when he jettisoned his pledge to abide by public campaign finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,443,24],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-copenhagen","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}