Get ready for broken promise No. 1

The Daily Herald's headline on Barack Obama's first postelection news conference (Nov. 8) should have read, "Obama set to renege on key election promise."

But the Herald had artfully buried that detail in the final paragraphs of the story: "Obama left the door open .... to change his tax plan that would give a break to most families but raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 annually. ... 'Obviously over the next several weeks and months we're going to be continuing to . . . look at the data and see what's taking place in the economy as a whole,' Obama said."

Obviously? Throughout the campaign there was nothing about any such plan to revise his promise. His tax plan was a lead-pipe cinch.

He gave his word: If you earn less than $250,000 a year, you will get a tax break. He so stated repeatedly and with fervor, even ridiculing John McCain's proposed "miserly" tax break.

Obama's promise was the single most-often cited reason his teary-eyed supporters gave for jumping on his bandwagon: "Obama's gonna tax someone else, not me."

And when did he have this epiphany that his tax plan might not work?

A mere three days after the votes were counted.

Or so he would have us believe.

Grab your wallets, folks. The tax man cometh.

Don Frost

Rolling Meadows