Now that 2010 is officially here, its interesting to look back at the year of hope and change Barrack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in.

Call 2009 the year of the bailout. All the corporate giants seemed to have gotten one. AIGs bailout was so generous it provided multi-million dollar “retention bonuses” to the same group of employees that caused the company‘s collapse. The loophole allowing the bonuses to be paid was written into the bill courtesy of Sen. Chris Dodd.

General Motors received a bailout; only to wind up in bankruptcy court months later. Miraculously, the Unions wound up owning nearly half the company. Campaign promise = fulfilled.

Then there were an endless succession of bailouts for the financial sector - and they haven‘t stopped yet. Wasn’t this guy supposed to clean up Wall Street? The President seems hell bent on bailing out big business ever chance he gets. Creating and saving jobs seems to be a distant priority. As if people aren’t suffering enough right now.

Now, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid trio has embarked on the next round of bailouts. This time it’s health insurance companies. Remember the State of the Union, “I just want to hold the health insurance companies accountable” speech? If awarding health insurers 44 million new customers and sticking taxpayers with a new monthly bill is holding the insurance companies accountable, then Joe Wilson was right. “You Lie!!!”

The job killing cap-and-trade bill, a measure which would have never passed in the House had it not been for the help of a few GOPers know as the “infamous six”. All of whom should be primaried. The measure later stalled in the Senate and hasn’t reared its ugly head in months.

Could anything drive home Obama’s lop-sided homeland security policies more so than a terrorist attack? The President received and intelligence briefing advising him that there may be a terrorist attack aboard an airline a weeks prior to the attack. Why would you beef up security after an attack when you were advised about it weeks before? According to homeland security chief Janet Napolitano, “The system worked.” I’d hate to see the system not working.

Obama ran on a promise to restore America’s standing in the world, yet instead of praising America’s acceptionalism, he went on a worldwide apology tour. The President gave the Europeans every emotional goody they could ask for and they gave him nothing in return.

The G-20 was unsuccessful. The goal was to get the Europeans to endorse his stimulus package and they didn’t. Nato was not a success. The goal was to get support for the combat mission in Afghanistan. They basically said we give you our support, but were not going to provide any troops or any combat capability.

He met with Medvedev the Russian President and they talked about mutual cooperation and in the U.N. Security Council in response to the N. Korean missile launch the Russians said no. The Chinese said no. I’m sure the Saudi’s were glad he bowed, but they’re not going to change their behavior either.

Remember the campaign rhetoric about creating transparency and putting bills online several days before Congress voted? Remember, all the talk about bipartisanship, open-debate and cleaning up the culture of corruption in Washington? Well, all that went out the window the first day the Obama-Pelosi-Reid trio stepped foot on Capital Hill. And while the Republicans stood back and allowed the Democrats to coin them as the party of “no” they were really the party of “no access”. Republican’s weren’t even allowed in the room.

Speaking of reforms, can anyone name one bill Obama has successfully pushed through congress, without conceding many of the key provisions of the legislation? Nada, nothing. Obama gave gay rights activist a nice speech, but never made good on any of his campaign promises to them either.