OBAMA SCAMS SENIOR VOTERS

obama has been using the draw -down of American troops in Iraq as a “hey, look at me and what I’ve done” moment.

Constantly we hear him saying that removing all combat troops from Iraq by the summer of 2010 was a campaign pledge he made and a campaign pledge he is keeping.

We heard this empty boast as troops began to leave; he said it again today during his national radio broadcast, and you can bet your next Social Security check that he will emphasize this point during his speech to the nation on Tuesday.

Stepping over the fact that he did absolutely nothing to make this pledge come true, other than giving the order to leave, let’s look at a one campaign promise he made that has been left out on the sidewalk like yesterday’s garbage.

The spring of 2008 found obama’s campaign struggling in the primaries against Senator Hillary Clinton in attracting the support of the elderly.

Reports of the “SuperTuesday” multi-state primary results in February 2008 were showing that obama received only 35% of those primary voters over the age of 60 while Senator Clinton received 56% of these votes (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/05/politics/main3795497.shtml).

obama also lost the primary votes of older Latinos by 40-60% percentage points to Senator Clinton in Texas, New Mexico, and California; by April 2008 the obama campaign admitted the elderly vote issue was becoming a problem (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9902.html ).

So, obama takes to doing what any good politician would do when they need to attract the votes of a certain voting demographic: pander to them.

Realizing that his opponent in the general election would be against an old white guy (Senator John McCain), obama panders to the most experienced of our population by promising them a tax break.

In August 2008 an AP story is widely circulated among most news agencies that obama was promising senior citizens that as president he would see to it that senior citizens making less than $50,000 annually would pay no income taxes.

obama was telling us that this promise would give more than 7 million citizens an average of $1,400 a year (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/12/obama-seniors-making-unde_n_118348.html).

Perhaps obama’s pandering to the post-youthful generation worked.

CNN’s national exit polls reveal that during the presidential election against Senator John McCain, obama received 50% of the votes from people age 45-64, and 45% of those votes from people over age 65 (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/).

Then obama came to Washington D.C., brought his mother-in-law, planted a garden, held a public barbecue, went on The View, and forgot all about his pledge to the elderly.

There were tax cuts in the non-stimulating stimulus bill, but none for the elderly…well; he did give those receiving Social Security an extra, one-time bonus of $250.

obama presented Congress with his first budget in January 2009; no tax cut for the elderly.

On April 15, 2009 obama gave a speech about reforming the tax code; no mention of a tax break for the elderly (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/24/end-income-tax-for-seniors-making-less-than/).

Yet he pushes obama-care into law which cuts Medicare benefits to the elderly Advantage program.

Now his wreck-the-social-security-system commission readies a proposal to decrease benefits, increase eligibility requirements, or increase taxes.

True, obama never set a time for his senior citizen tax promise to actually take place, except that it would happen with him as president.

True, obama never added the little caveat to his promise during the campaign that some other politicians may be against his little promise, or that politics might make things difficult to get this done.

That would make him different, a change, from normal pandering politicians.

While you listen to obama taking credit for keeping a pledge that even Joe Biden could have kept, note that besides the fake-out of the elderly citizens in America, there are 21 other promises (politifact.com) obama made during his run for the White House that he has also either abandoned or had little stomach to fight for.

Change you can believe in?

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Source: http://wbrukie.blogspot.com/2010/08/obama-scams-senior-voters.html