Remember when Salon.com was unashamedly liberal? Today they list promises made by Obama that he wants you to forget (other than closing Gitmo). In short:

1. “I’ll give an annual ‘State of the World’ address to the American people in which I lay out our national security policy.”
2. “[Obama] endorses the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars.”
3. “Barack Obama will double the Peace Corps to 16,000 by its 50th anniversary in 2011 and push Congress to fully fund this expansion, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.”
4. “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.” [broken in first 10 days of his administration]
5. “But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting.” [2 years and counting]

They left out that whole “most transparent administration in history” thing.

If you measure Obama according to the hyperbole spun by 2004 Democrat candidates, he would take Dubya’s place as the “worst president in history.”

During the 2004 election, Democrats constantly reminded voters that George W. Bush was the first president in decades to oversee a net loss of jobs. …

Whether the measurement is job creation, unemployment or growth of gross domestic product, the economy has been worse under Obama than it was under Bush.

First, job creation. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Going back to World War II, that is by far the worst record for any president in his first 17 months, outpacing the job destruction experienced in the early Bush years by more than 800,000 jobs.

November 2008, the month he was elected, until now, the economy has shed an astonishing 4.4 million jobs. That’s worse than Hoover.

The two-percentage-point increase in unemployment rate during his presidency, to 9.7 percent from 7.7 percent, is the third-worst since World War II. Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford saw bigger increases.

GDP growth under Obama, an abysmal 3 percentage points so far, is the fourth-worst in the postwar period. Eisenhower, Ford and Ronald Reagan all began their terms with worse GDP growth.

But hey, it was Kerry and the Democrats who made job creation the be-all and end-all measurement of a presidency, and by that standard, Obama is dredging a new low. It’s probably a good bet that Democrats who became so enamored of Hoover’s name in 2004 won’t be mentioning it much this year.

It’s amazing how often hyperbole can be thrown back in the face of politicians. If only they would get things right, we wouldn’t have to.

From the NY Post, Battle for freedom: Vietnam’s lessons for War on Terror:

In April 30, 1975, a last Marine helicopter left the US embassy com pound in Saigon. Hours later, communist tanks rolled triumphantly through the streets of what would soon be renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam War was over. Never mind that America had just completed the most successful airlift in history, carrying more than 50,000 Vietnamese refugees and US personnel to safety — or that the US military had never lost a battle in its eight-year fight against the communist North and its Viet Cong allies. It wasn’t America’s military that failed in Vietnam, but its political leadership and a public weary of war and weekly casualty lists — a public that never realized that Vietnam was part of an existential struggle for humanity and freedom until it was too late.

At the time, America’s liberal intelligentsia hailed the American withdrawal and the fall of Saigon as good news. The New York Times’ Sydney Schanberg wrote: “Indochina without Americans. For Most, A Better Life?” Another Times columnist, Anthony Lewis, asked: “What future could possibly be more terrible than the reality” of a war that had cost so much in lives and treasure?

It took less than a year to learn the answer — and the body count. It included 65,000 Vietnamese murdered or shot after “liberation,” the equivalent in terms of Vietnam’s population of 750,000 people in today’s America; the 250,000 who died of disease or starvation or were worked to death in brutal “reeducation camps”; the thousands of “boat people” who tried to flee the totalitarian nightmare of communist Vietnam and perished at sea, and the 1.5 million innocent Cambodians butchered or starved to death by the Khmer Rouge. Their ghosts stand as mute testimony to what happens when America decides to be merely a spectator in a struggle with tyranny, instead of freedom’s protagonist.

Read it all.

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Even the incredibly left-wing, terrorist-loving, granola-chomping propagandist over at FreshJive is losing faith, as evidenced by the release of this tee-shirt:

It is, appropriately enough, being released on Black Friday. Oooh, the Left is plunging in black despair and depression! Who could have seen that coming?

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