Saying goodbye to the Obama platform of "change we can believe in"

I don’t always catch everything which goes on in the news, and fortunately I have a good group of friends who are always willing to pass things along to me which I may have missed.

Such was the case earlier today when I received an email from a friend of mine pertaining to a yahoo news story which was published online yesterday detailing a “back door” deal that Mr. Obama made with lobbyists of the Pharmaceutical industry. The story details how Obama worked a deal out with “Big Pharma’s” chief lobbyist, a Billy Tauzin, in which the Fed would forgo Medicare drug price bargaining and allowing the importation of cheaper pharmaceutical drugs from Canada in exchange for $80 billion in cost savings (apparently on pharmaceuticals for Medicare) and financial backing of the “pro reform campaign”.

This deal between Obama and Tauzin apparently took place late last week but since then House Democrats have gotten a little peeved at Mr. Obama and forced him to back off on the deal-somewhat.

Regardless of whether or not this “deal” actually happened, I would like to know about that change which Mr. Obama promised us when he ran for president. Wasn’t one of the positions under his platform of “change” that he wouldn’t be bullied by the lobbyists in Washington? That he wouldn’t allow them to influence any of his policy making decisions? That he wouldn’t “play old school political games” (or something similar)?

It has been obvious to me, at least, from the beginning of Mr. Obama’s presidency that his version of “change” was not one that I agreed with. I am definitely no conservative, but I am no liberal socialist either-which is exactly what Mr. Obama is and which is why I refuse to call him “President” on principle. Our President is supposed to represent the majority of the opinion in our country, and as time has gone on Obama has proven time and time again that he does not represent the majority in our country. In fact, the more time that passes the more and more people I encounter who voted for Mr. Obama but who now regret their decision as they continue to see how socialist Mr. Obama really is. At least as his socialist policies were concerned, we could legitimately say that Obama was all about “change”. But now we can say that he is a liar too, because his form of change was supposed to be about not playing partisan politics and not pandering to special interests and lobbyists, but here we have Obama working a major deal with one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington to secure support for his healthcare package commonly known as Obamacare…

So much for “change we can believe in”, particularly since it’s now obvious that Obama doesn’t even believe in that garbage himself.