{"id":5683,"date":"2010-06-11T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2010-06-11T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:54:56","slug":"obama-flip-flops-again-will-meet-with-bp-ceo-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5683\/obama-flip-flops-again-will-meet-with-bp-ceo-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Flip-Flops Again, Will Meet With BP CEO Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t know whether this is positive news or depressing news, but Barack Obama has flip-flopped once again.\u00a0 Now, he says he will meet<\/a> with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward after all, just days after stating that he was not interested<\/a> in such a meeting.<\/p>\n

We suppose this is good news in the sense that if Obama is willing to meet murderous dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “without preconditions,” then he should at least be willing to meet the CEO of the company desperately attempting to stop the worst oil spill in American history.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it demonstrates once again that a pledge from Obama is about as dependable as a teleprompter during a rainstorm.\u00a0 His broken promises include a solemn vow not to raise taxes<\/a> on anyone earning over $250,000, to comply with public campaign finance restrictions<\/a>, to exclude lobbyists<\/a> from his administration and to close the Guantanamo detention facility.\u00a0 Many of Obama’s promises were ill-advised when offered, but how can businesses, foreign allies or anyone else gain any certainty from a man who reverses pledges he made only days earlier?<\/p>\n

It’s a terrible prospect for the economy, which relies upon expectation stability, and international security to have such an unreliable White House occupant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We don’t know whether this is positive news or depressing news, but Barack Obama has flip-flopped once again.\u00a0 Now, he says he will meet with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward after all, just days after stating that he was not interested in such a meeting. We suppose this is good news in the sense that […]<\/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":[1215,1383,1398,1397,24],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bp","tag-ceo","tag-flip-flop","tag-hayward","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","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=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}