Meese: Obama Wrong on Cold War Win

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_meese_cold_war/2009/08/09/245742.html

“Make no mistake: this change did not come from any one nation alone,” [Obama] said. “The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.”

But Meese, who advised President Reagan on foreign affairs as part of the National Security Council, said such moral relativism is “simply not true.”

Meese describes Obama’s foreign policy as “part of the cult of personality that has characterized the Obama administration in which he goes around the world saying things that get a round of applause from his audience without him appreciating or recognizing the negative impact it has on the United States.”

Meese said that if this type of diplomacy persists over Obama’s first and potential second terms, “I see a continued deterioration of the overall standing of the United States in the world.”

Obama Health Plan Ups Taxes to Pre-Reagan Levels, Would Break Campaign Promise

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_health_taxes/2009/07/15/236004.html

"The plan would honor Obama's campaign promise not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000. But it would break an Obama pledge that no one _ including the wealthy _ would pay higher taxes than they did in the 1990s. The pledge, as listed on Obama's campaign Web site, was: "'No family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s.'"

"The bill unveiled by House Democratic leaders Tuesday would create three new tax brackets for high earners, with a top rate of 45 percent for families making more than $1 million. That would be the highest income tax rate since 1986, when the top rate was 50 percent."

Too bad integrity and keeping ones word doesn't matter anymore.