Obama Flip-Flops on Farm Aid

 You know the old saying, actions speak louder than words? Well here is a case of Obama’s words vs. Obama’s actions. While introducing his new budget director he singled out farm subsidies for the rich as a program that he would cut out in order to trim the budget.

 This is an idea that I approve of, and I hope that the president-elect keeps his word about this. However this is also an idea that I approved of when the Farm Bill came up for a vote earlier this year. You know, back when Barack Obama berated the president for vetoing the bill for holding the same position that Obama now claims to hold. 

President Bush actually sought a $200,000 annual income cap on subsidy payments, but Congress couldn’t bring itself to vote on anything below $750,000. And even that got killed by the likes of Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, who as it happens helped Mr. Orszag get his current job running the Congressional Budget Office. The Members ended up passing a $300 billion bill in which nearly every crop, from corn to sugar, won subsidy increases. Mr. Bush vetoed it in May but was overridden.

 President Bush actually vetoed the Farm Aid bill because the cap on subsidies was too high, a position that Barack Obama now claims to hold. The veto was over-ridden by Democrats in congress. If Barack Obama had bothered to vote on this bill, which he didn’t, I am sure based on his recent comments that he would have voted against it also, right?

And he then went on to rake Mr. Bush and John McCain (who opposed the bill) for “saying no to America’s farmers and ranchers, no to energy independence, no to the environment, and no to millions of hungry people.”

 He blasted President Bush for “saying no to hungry people” by not signing the bill that gave farm subsidies to the rich and now, after he failed to vote on the issue, he wants to revoke the subsidies he berated the president for vetoing. The same subsidies that his party voted into policy for the next five years.

 Barack Obama holds the same position as President Bush on this issue but while he was running for president he didn’t want anyone to know. Now that he will soon be president he is either more comfortable letting people know where he stands on issues like this or he is too stupid to realize that he has contradicted himself.

 I don’t think that he is stupid so it must mean that he is beginning to become more comfortable in letting the American people know where he stands on the issues that he was so vague on as a candidate.