The President - Promises and Polls

President Barak Obama promised to reinstate Executive Order No. 13173 which President Clinton issued just before he left office. Executive Order No. 13173 failed to achieve its mandate of hiring an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years. Obama will issue this executive order early in his first term and designate a senior White House official to assure that all federal departments and agencies meet the mandate." He actually reinstated the executive order on the day of its anniversary. He promised to work with military commanders on the ground in Iraq and in consultation with the Iraqi government to end the war safely and responsibly within 16 months. The last of American combat troops are leaving Iraq, "Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home." The Obama-meter reads: Promises Kept 122, Compromises 39, Promises Broken 22, Stalled 82, and in the Works are 238. The President is doing much of what he promised and sinking in the polls. I mentioned this to Reverend Jeremiah Wright when he was with us and he responded with this story: "If Barak, Biden and Hillary were on a boat and Hillary's hat blew off into the water. Biden exclaimed; What are we going to do? Barak said, Hold tight, he gets up, walks on the water, gets Hillary's hat and comes back to the boat and gives it to her, the pondents would say, "See there, he cant even swim." Mr. President, I offer to you the advice that the late Reverend Dr. E.V. Hill of Los Angeles gave to me many many years ago, and as the years passed on it became the most helpful piece of advice ever given to me; "DO WHAT YOU CAN."