People do not make wars; governments do.
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While running for President, Obama promised pretty much everything to everyone. In Ohio, he promised to support loan guarantees for uranium enrichment. A cornerstone for the US to ween itself from oil and coal. The promise was convincing, it made logic. It would not only assist in the pursuit of cleaner energy, it would create jobs [...]
During the presidential campaign of 2008, John McCain, the straight shooter, said he’d consider taxing health benefits in order to pay for expanding health coverage to everyone else. It was one of the deciding factors in deciding the race. Obama jumped all over McCain on the issue, and of course, promied everyone his coverage would [...]
“[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,” Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.” He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending [...]
