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"The rest of the article is an equal mix of propaganda (the people still love Obama!) and rehash of what many have been saying for some time: that the Trillion Dollar Spending Bill will not in fact create immediate jobs, that Obama’s budgets and additional spending bills are larded up with wasteful pork barrel projects for people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and that Obama is failing to provide the sensible leadership we need (which is tough) and instead prefers to sit on the sidelines enjoy the fact that he’s President (which is easy, and makes Michelle proud for the very first time in her adult life).
"But, what it fails to address is the central question we ask every day: where is the change we were waiting for?
"Obama promised to solve all of our problems, and deliver all of our hopes and dreams.
"He swore he was going to change the way things are done in Washington. Dumping trillions of dollars of taxpayer money into wasteful pork barrel projects is not change.
"So, Newsweek claims the public still loves Obama — but what they don’t talk about is how many of these people believe 'stimulus checks' are in the mail, headed their way to solve all of their problems? What happens when those checks never come? What happens when people see Obama has no intention, or ability, to deliver on all of his promises?
"If the honeymoon’s already over now, what marriage related metaphor will be used when people realize just how empty all of those campaign promises really were? It’s only been 50 days. The grace period’s 100.
"That gives Obama until April 29th to deliver some of the magic he promised on a daily basis for the last two years.
"We desperately want to be wrong about this man, who Oprah swore was 'The One', the Lightbringer, the Deliverer from All Evil. So, start delivering us from economic disaster, get your Treasury Secretary whipped into shape, and stop dithering while the nation burns. "
