Yup, he said (wrote, had his staff publish, whatever) that. It sounded good, didn't it? Yup, it sounded good. So, in part with such things he got elected. N

Yup, he said (wrote, had his staff publish, whatever) that. It sounded good, didn't it? Yup, it sounded good. So, in part with such things he got elected. Now, guess what, he isn't following what he said. We have to guess that maybe what he said was a deliberate lie. But it appears so far that he has 'read' the voters correctly: People will vote based on such promises but then, later, during the term of office, nearly completely forget about such promises. Uh, maybe Obama would have a better memory if more voters did! One reason in the past to forget was that, for tens of millions of voters, it was a bit clumsy to clip the original statement from a newspaper, file it, and then find it later. And, even if did find it, tough to do anything with it, e.g., get enough publicity about it to cause the politician start to make good on the promise. Of course now we have easy ways to find all such promises and publicize, if only on blogs and fora, that a promise is not being followed. But, apparently, still nearly all the voters are like they used to be and not really paying attention. If a voter was wise, then during the election they likely assumed that nearly everything the candidates said were lies, only had two candidates to vote for, picked one, but never expected that the winner would honor the promises. Net, really, especially now with the Internet, what government we get is up to the voters; when 60% of the voters are up on their hind legs yelling and screaming about the government tracking mud over the Fourth Amendment, then we will get some big changes quickly. The good news is that all we need is the 60%. The bad news is that getting the 60% on a 'technical' or 'detailed' issue that does not yet directly affect the daily lives of the citizens is tough to do. An old remark is that in a democracy the voters get the government they deserve. So far, by making promises that are lies and then forgetting about the promises, Obama is just giving the voters what in effect they want. That's part of why he won election twice.