Barack Obama to Serve President Bush’s Third Term

 President-elect Obama and the left campaigned by linking Rino candidate John McCain to president Bush and calling a McCain presidency more of the same. They also liked to say that John McCain would be serving Bush’s third term. The strategy was, needless to say, extremely successful.

 John McCain will not be serving President Bush’s third term but a look at some of the issues reveals that Barack Obama may be ready to serve Bush’s third term.

Taxes/Economy

 Candidate Obama promised to end the Bush tax cuts. He also promised to stick it to raise taxes on the rich. He campaigned against the failed Bush economic policy, (you know, the same policy that pulled us out of a recession after 9/11), and promised to “change” the Bush policies.

 President-elect Obama has stated that he may have to delay taxing the rich because it is bad for the economy. This is the position that President Bush has held and John McCain also campaigned on. Common sense tells us that taking money away from people in tough economic times, or any time for that matter, will further hurt the economy and now that Obama has become president-elect he has admitted it also.

Iraq

 Candidate Obama has had many different positions on Iraq, mostly related to his timetable for defeat. He promised to end the war upon assuming office as well as drawing down troops within two years or 18 months or 13 months or whenever. But the main crux of his position was that we were going to withdraw before victory was achieved.

 President-elect Obama has retained Bush Defense secretary Robert Gates and has made inclinations that he would listen to the commanders on the ground in Iraq about troop withdrawals. In other words, continuing President Bush’s plan. 

Farm aid

Senator Obama supported the farm aid bill that President Bush vetoed. The president vetoed the bill because it payed subsidies to farmers who did not need them, rich farmers. President Bush wanted to cap subsides to farmers making under $200,000 a year but the Democrats upped the subsidy payouts to those making up to $750,000. The final bill that the Democrats over-rode Bush’s veto on provided subsidies basically to all farmers regardless of their income. Obama did not vote on this bill but released a statement about President Bush and John McCain’s stance on the farm bill that read in part,”saying no to America’s farmers and ranchers, no to energy independence, no to the environment, and no to millions of hungry people.”

 As you can see he came out strongly against the president’s position.

 President-elect Obama singled out these very same farm subsidies that he applauded as a candidate as nothing but subsidies for the rich and also as a program that has outlived it’s usefulness. It sounds as if Obama has seen the light and now is in agreement with President Bush that we should not be subsidizing rich farmers.

Don’t ask, don’t tell

 Candidate Obama promised to repeal the don’t ask, don’t tell policy of the military. This policy was in itself a broken promise of President Clinton who promised to end the ban of gays in the military. This was President Clinton’s idea of a compromise on this issue. Obama claimed that the policy was discriminatory and needed to be repealed.

 President-elect Obama has decided to delay his promised repeal of the don’t ask, don’t tell policy for months and possibly years, thus extending President Clinton’s (and President Bush’s) policy for at least another two years.

 Domestic spying

 I don’t think that I need to remind anyone about candidate Obama’s stance on the president’s wiretapping program that was used to listen to calls originating in the middle east to America that the left dubbed “domestic spying.” He claimed that the wiretapping was illegal, he claimed that the president was listening in on all American’s private phone calls.

President-elect Obama may just keep this same policy in place. According to this article, “Mr. Obama, as president, may be more willing to accept the broadened presidential powers that he once condemned as a candidate, particularly since Congress has approved expanded surveillance powers for the government.”

Illegal Immigration

 Candidate Obama and president-elect Obama are the same person when it comes to illegal immigration. So are President Bush and John McCain, no surprises here.

 I have just given six examples of how candidate Obama differs from president-elect Obama, and I have to say that president-elect Obama sounds quite a bit like President Bush. At leas ton these six issues.

 Yes it appears that President Bush’s third term may be served but it won’t be John McCain serving it. With the exception of the global warming hoax and “national, universal” health-care President Obama looks poised to serve President Bush’s third term. So I ask the far left, “how does it feel to be played for fools?”