President Obama Broke a Campaign Promise

 President Obama has broken a campaign promise. While running for president he claimed that he would not sign a bill until five days had passed once it reached his desk.

“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them,” the Obama-Biden campaign website states. “As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

 His campaign website claimed that this was an effort and an attempt by Obama to let the American people review a bill and comment on it before he signs it. This was meant to help his administration become the most open administration in history. But two bills have reached his desk and one was signed two days later and the other didn’t even sit on his desk for five hours.

  The truth is that Americans already voted on most issues last November. When you vote for a candidate you vote for his/her positions on the issues, you should already know where he stands on all of the issues. But a promise is a promise and he promised to let all Americans voice an opinion on all non-emergency bills for five days. His backing down on this promise so soon informs us that much like all of his other promises this one was done for public relations and public relations only.