barry's campaign promises?

January 11, 2009

barry's making the rounds to state what he will do instead of being questioned by reporters. I have been waiting for this obamanation. I was worried I wouldn't win my bet that he would back up on every campaign promise before he got into office. But he did. It's the one thing you can count on with barry: political expedience.

"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. (Transcript)

courtesy of lester941111

STEPHANOPOULOS: Which of your ambitions, which of your campaign promises will you have to scale back on because of all this?

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BARRY: So our challenge is going to be is identifying what works, and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don't work, and making things we have more efficient.

I'm-I'm-I'm not suggesting George, I-I-I want to be realistic here, uh, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me press you on this. At the end of the day, are you really talking about over the course of your presidency some kind of a grand bargain? That you have tax reform, healthcare reform, entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good.

BARRY: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And when will that get done?

BARRY: Well, uh, the, uh--right not I'm focused on a pretty heavy lift, which is making sure that we get that reinvestment and recovery package in place. But what you described is exactly what we're going to have to do. What we have to do is take a look at our structural deficit - how are we paying for government, what are we getting for it, and how do we make the system more efficient.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And eventually sacrifice from everyone?

BARRY: Everybody's going to have to give-everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game.

In other words: he is raising taxes on everyone.

Wonder what Joe the Plumber thinks about "where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good."