Switch Continues Part 2

So it looks like this story is going to become a series because Obama can’t help but do everything he can to reverse every one of his campaign promises.

1. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Bait:

“We support the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and the implementation of policies to allow qualified men and women to serve openly regardless of sexual orientation.”

Switch:

Not so fast: President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military’s decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

2. Lobbyists

Bait:

“I’m in this race to tell the lobbyists and the big fat cats that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. They have not funded my campaign.  They will not work in my White House.”

Switch:

3.Iraq

Bait:

Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 – more than 7 years after the war began.

Switch:

“Obama ran his campaign around the idea the war was not legitimate, but it sends a very different message when you bring in people who supported the war from the beginning,” said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of the 54-chapter Iraq Veterans Against the War.

4. Change

Bait:

change

verb, changed, chang⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one’s name; to change one’s opinion; to change the course of history.

Switch:

The Clinton Administration II

JIM LEHRER: All right, speaking of the new administration, Mark, the word is today, or it’s the — the rumor is today — the word “rumor” is today that Hillary Clinton is going to be asked to be secretary of state by Barack Obama. What do you think of that?

DAVID BROOKS: I actually think that’s a good move. I’d hate to see any single member of the Clinton administration not in the Obama administration. Somebody might feel left out. I think he’s taking the whole group.

• Transition chief John Podesta – Clinton White House Chief of Staff
• White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – Clinton Administration Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – Clinton Administration Cuckquean
• Chief of Staff of Vice President Ron Klain – Clinton Administration Chief of Staff of Vice President (Seriously?  Obama gave this guy the exact same job?  Seriously?)
• Attorney General Eric Holder – Clinton Administration Deputy Attorney General
• Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner – Clinton Administration Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Al Qaeda Doesn’t Think That Obama’s “Change” Is Something They Believe In

Al Qaeda Douchebag Ayman al-Zawahiri released an audio tape today attacking Obama’s policy towards Israel, contrasting Obama with Malcolm X and calling the President-elect a “House Negro”.

Zawahiri is unimpressed with Obama’s plan to pull troops out of Iraq to fight in Afghanistan.

Zawahiri condemns Obama’s plan to move troops from Iraq to Afghanistan as a policy “destined for failure before it was born” and tells Obama that “a heavy legacy of failure and crimes” awaits him.

Zawahiri also claims that by electing Barack Obama, the American people have admitted defeat in Iraq.

In related news, another Al Qaeda Douchebag, Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, was pumped full of Hellfire overnight.

Where Is The Transparency At Change.gov?

“Obama has promised to create a “transparent and connected White House.” He’s also promised to appoint a Cabinet-rank chief technology officer to promote openness in federal agencies and help the new president communicate with the electorate.”

Barack Obama hadn’t even set foot in the White House as President-Elect when he attempted his first cover-up.

Change.gov is the official Obama website.  It is where Obama spells out among other things, his political agenda.

Now, the site is a work in progress, but if you went to the site on Friday and clicked on Agenda, you’d see this.  It lays out the Obama agenda on various political topics like the economy, homeland security and Iraq.

Now, this agenda, as spelled out, wasn’t the most objective document one has seen on a US government site.

For example, take a look at this quote from the Iraq page:

Since the surge began, more than 1,000 American troops have died, and despite the improved security situation, the Iraqi government has not stepped forward to lead the Iraqi people and to reach the genuine political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.

Just the kind of defeatist rhetoric that we’ve come to expect from the Democrats.

But what may raise eyebrows is what you see when you go to  http://change.gov/agenda/ today.  If you click on the link, you’ll noticed that instead of a list of topics you’ll just see this:

The Agenda

President-Elect Obama and Vice President-Elect Biden have developed innovative approaches to challenge the status quo in Washington and to bring about the kind of change America needs.

The Obama Administration has a comprehensive and detailed agenda to carry out its policies. The principal priorities of the Obama Administration include: a plan to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.

…and that’s it.  Want to see what the Obama agenda on poverty is?  Too bad.  What if, in a few years, you wanted to see what campaign promises Obama had fulfilled?  Well, good luck with that.  You’ll have to try to piece them together from the hundreds of speeches he gave over the campaign.

Douchebag Report is glad to see that the Obama administration has set a precedent for transparency for the next four years or so.