Great leaders don't make promises just to get elected to an office, but rather only make pledges that they believe and then stick by them. Typical politicians, in contrast, go around breaking their previous promises right and left. And that's what we have in His Majesty -- a typical politician, remarkable only for (1) his political and speechmaking savvy and (2) being the farthest to the left of any American president ever elected. Case in point again this weekend:Majesty's treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, tells ABC that the administration won't rule out new taxes on the middle class in the middle of an awful recession ("We're going to have to do what's necessary," crowed Geithner (link below)). Flashback to September 2008 on the campaign trail in Dover, New Hampshire. His Majesty declares and pledges that no middle class American family with an annual income of less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase on his watch. Nevermind that Majesty has already broken this pledge at least twice already (through the tobacco tax and his support of the Cap'n Trade bill) -- this weekend shows that he doesn't care how many times he may break it. If he feels it's "necessary" to furthering his radical left-wing agenda, he'll try to stick those of us in the middle class with a new tax any damn time he feels like it.
Now, brass tacks: If you happen to be in Majesty's camp and support this kind of thing, that's fine and that's your right. But don't you try to tell me as well that is some great American president and one of the greatest leaders in the history of the civilized world. Because he looks pretty ordinary to me.
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