Are we waking up....

to how disingenious this President was and continues to be.

Every succesful Presidential candidate is faced with reality when they enter the WH, but no candidate I can recall ran and was elected based on the lofty ideals that this candidate ran on.

From today's Washington Post...

"Candidate Barack Obama offered a lofty vision of how his White House would operate. When the details of health reform were being hammered out, he vowed, "We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies."

The campaign even aired an ad singling out Billy Tauzin, the drug industry's chief lobbyist. "The pharmaceutical industry wrote into the prescription drug plan that Medicare could not negotiate with drug companies," Obama said in the ad. "And you know what? The chairman of the committee, who pushed the law through, went to work for the pharmaceutical industry making $2 million a year. Imagine that."

Now, it turns out, the Obama White House has cut a backroom -- actually, Roosevelt Room -- deal with Billy Tauzin: Drugmakers would ante up $80 billion in savings in return for a promise that Medicare wouldn't be allowed to negotiate drug prices.

"We were assured: 'We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal,'" Tauzin told The New York Times.

Imagine that.

The White House, playing the political version of "Deal or No Deal," is backing away, rather unconvincingly, from its initial confirmation. In New Hampshire Tuesday, Obama raised the prospect of getting more from drug companies. But the episode underscores the dangerously wide gap between Obama's idealistic campaign-trail promises and the gritty realities of real-world governing."

It does not stop with this incident...it continues and if you read the article it is well presented without being so mean and nasty that it serves nobody but it is factual.

The last sentence of the article rings to another thread on here....

"Which leads to the core question facing the still-young administration: What happens when people start to wonder whether they can really believe in this change?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art..._in_97861.html