A Really Good One-Term President?

Check out the article about Obama's exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/president-obama-good-term-president/story?id=9657337

In it he states that "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." Finally, I can agree with President Obama on something: I too hope he is a one-term president. There's already enough evidence to show that the "really good" part won't happen so I hope he can at least follow through on the second half of this statement.

After reading the article I actually found more things I agree with him on. Like when he said "When your poll numbers drop, you are an idiot." Well his poll numbers have certainly dropped in the past few months so I tend to agree with this assessment of himself – it's more honest than the B+ he gave himself a few months back. Then there was: ""I'd probably say I make a mistake a day, maybe two." Or three or four and most days more.

What amazes me is that this president added $800 Billion to our children's debt with the promise that unemployment wouldn't go above 8%. We all know too well where it is now. Then a month or so ago he had a "Jobs Summit" to figure out how to create jobs. Do you think he should have had that summit prior to the $800 Billion stimulus bill? Of course the Chamber of Commerce and National Federation of Independent Business were not invited to the "summit" but unions were. I'm thinking something is a bit backwards there. He invited the people that kill jobs by demanding too much for their constituents but left out the people that create jobs and then wondered where the jobs were.

During the campaign he told us that he was for the middle class. But at the end of the article it talks about him proposing "measures that emerged from his Task Force on Middle Class Families". Say that again? He has to have a Task Force on Middle Class Families? I thought he understood us and that he was bringing hope and change to the working families of America. What does he need a task force for?

Speaking of hope and change and taxes, remember the promise that anyone making under $250,000 ($200,000 for an individual) would not see their taxes increase, "not one single dime"? Of course he ignored that when he raised the cigarette tax but that was for a good cause - health care for kids - so we can let him slide on that broken promise, right? And the health insurance mandate he was going to force on all those young uninsured people, well that wasn't a tax that was a mandate with a "fine" if you didn't comply. So he's still okay, right? Well how about in the article where he's asked about tax increases for people making under $250,000 and instead of guaranteeing "not one single dime" he responded with "I can guarantee that the worst thing we could do would be to raise taxes when the economy is still this weak". Wow, that was emphatic.

The worst thing you could do when the economy is weak is consider jobs-killing bills like cap-and-tax and health insurance overhaul, but he's been doing that for a year now. The worst thing you could do when the economy is weak is to continue to attack the job creators with threats of higher taxes, but he's been doing that for a year now. The worst thing you could do when the economy is weak is to make a statement that indicates once the economy strengthens, they are going to raise taxes. If you were a company why would you consider investing in new jobs when you've just been warned that your taxes will go up when things improve? You wouldn't. You'd hunker down and save your money for the coming storm. That's what people are doing, that's why jobs are not being created, that's why people are not investing. You'd think by now Obama would have realized this but I don't think it is in DNA to understand this.

Does anybody still feel their taxes won't go up? Anybody? Does anybody still think this guy knows what he's doing? Anybody? How's that hope and change working out?