Remembering the candidate Obama

Before He Cuts Social Security, I Hope the President Listens to This Obama Guy
by R.J.Eskow
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/rj-eskow/33685/before-he-cuts-social-security-i-hope-the-president-listens-to-this-obama-guy

EXCERPT: I'm sure his advisers are telling him that he must cut Social Security, even though it's politically unwise and fiscally unnecessary. Before he does, I hope the president will take the time to listen to Candidate Obama. I think he'll find that he's a pretty impressive guy. We certainly thought so; we elected him.

The president might want to give special attention to the words spoken by that candidate when he declared his intention to run for president, on a winter's day in Springfield just three years ago:

"Too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in, and people turn away, disappoint­ed as before, left to struggle on their own."

The president we elected will stand up and defend Social Security in his State of the Union address. We're hoping to see him there.