Obama's Opposite Days

D.L. Hammack at American Thinker wonders if Obama has been playing a childhood game with us for the last year:

It would appear that America has been treated to a full year of opposite days with our president. We are constantly being told one thing, but the exact opposite is what really occurs. Our first-year president appears to be playing the opposite game.

Let's go back to the campaign, where the president pledged Hope and Change. What has he given us? A world of despair and more of the same -- times the power of twelve. It must have been an opposite day. He promised us transparency, yet we were treated to backroom dealings, payoffs and special interest deals. Perhaps another opposite day? We were assured that there would be no lobbyists in his White House, yet we find the payrolls riddled with those very individuals. Either our president had his fingers crossed behind his back, or it was declared on another of his opposite days. How about the assurance that nobody making under $250,000 would see a dime in new taxes? What about the stimulus bill keeping unemployment under 8%? What about televising the health care dealings, or posting any bill for 72 hours prior to voting? Of course, the president didn't really want to be in the automotive business, right?

The problem is this: If we look back on virtually all of the promises made by our president during his first year, we would be hard-pressed to find any that were actually kept. There's only one justification that I can find for this: He is making promises only on his opposite days! Based on the number of prime-time news conferences, press conferences, and television appearances; he must have had a lot of 'em.

Now with this in mind, we can prepare for the next three years -- assuming (which is a safe bet) that the president will continue with his opposite day games. It will be a simple process to translate anything that he tells us. For instance: When he says that he is focused on deficit reduction, we can assume that spending will be rampant. When he tells us that his stimulus has saved or created two million jobs; we can be assured that the economy has actually lost those two million jobs. When he assures Republicans that his February 25th summit on health care is an attempt at bipartisan politics to save the country's failing health care system, we can be assured that he has no desire to reach across the aisle. When he says that his number-one focus is finding jobs for Americans, we'll see through the game and realize that this is actually the last thing on his mind.

The president swears that he is not an ideologue, but we have been witnesses to an agenda that is being force-fed to America whether they like it or not. When we are told that FOX News is not a true news organization...well, play the game and see what the truth really is.

Jim Geraghty made a regular feature of The Campaign Spot that every Obama promise has an expiration date, some sooner than others, but all sure to expire. And as shown in the article above, the opposite usually happens.

Maybe it all is just a game?