Musings: Promises, Promises
August 7, 2007
Desi Anwar
INTERVIEWING the President a while back I made a mistake of reminding him about his campaign promises. When did he plan to implement half of them, if at all? He was not amused to the point of being upset (which one always suspects as a sign of guilty feeling). All the presidential candidates made similar campaign promises, he said. It was unfair to pursue him on those issues. He preferred it if I focused more on the