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- novenator, on 11/09/2009, -29/+153As it stands right now, Obama has officially broken 7 promises, including recognizing the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks in WWI. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulin ...
However, Obama has kept 52 promises including increased funding for national parks and forests, release of presidential records, transparency (Recovery.gov for instance), direct military leaders to end war in Iraq, rebuild schools in New Orleans, banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees, created new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud, investing in all types of alternative energy, high-speed rail, and public transportation. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulin ...
Overall, it is a very good track record, but don't take my word for it, judge for yourself at the Bipartisan report of Obama's Campaign Promises:
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/ - WordsnCollision, on 11/08/2009, -15/+95But bromises are made to be broken, amiright?
- inactive, on 11/08/2009, -14/+88Bromises, bromises.
- somberlaine, on 11/09/2009, -8/+62dugg for bromises
- thegrantman, on 11/09/2009, -0/+46Don't phrase me bro.
- spworm, on 11/09/2009, -3/+48NO. I want everything NOW.
I want a house NOW. I want a car NOW. I want all my food NOW.
NOW NOW NOW NOW.
/average american voter, consumer & debtor. - GregFD3S, on 11/09/2009, -16/+52He still has three years left, give him a chance.
- Egg333, on 11/09/2009, -7/+40Is it Bro-mise? Like...for bro's?
- dwiebelhaus, on 11/09/2009, -11/+42If you cannot even spell properly or form complete sentences then don't bitch about Harvard Law grads dumbass.
These days, the argument that Obama hasn't accomplished anything may be the only example of real bipartisanship in America.
Here's the conventional wisdom in a single paragraph: Three hundred and sixty-four days after he was elected president, Obama is still stuck in Iraq, hasn't closed Guantánamo, is getting deeper into Afghanistan, hasn't accomplished health-care reform or slowed the rise in unemployment. His promises of bipartisanship are a punch line (see above). And there's still no peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What a failure! What a splash of cold water in the face of all our bold hopes!
But the conventional wisdom is insane. Consider the record:
A week before he was sworn in, Obama jammed part two of the bank bailout down the throat of his own party — a $350 billion accomplishment.
Two days after he was sworn in, Obama banned the use of "harsh interrogation" and ordered the closing of Guantánamo.
A day later, Obama reversed George W. Bush's funding cutoff to overseas family planning organizations — saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.
Three days after that, Obama gave a green light to the California car-emissions standards that Bush had been blocking for six years — an important step on the road to cleaner air and a cooler planet.
Two weeks after that, Obama signed the stimulus bill — a $787 billion accomplishment.
Ten days after that, Obama formally announced America's withdrawal from Iraq.
A week later — we're in early March now — Obama erased Bush's decision to restrict federal funding for stem-cell research.
In April and June, Obama forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy.
In June, Obama reset the tone of our relations with the entire Arab world with a single speech — an accomplishment that the Bush administration failed to achieve despite a series of desperate PR moves (anyone remember Charlotte Beers?) and a "public diplomacy" budget of $1 billion a year.
Also in June, Obama unveiled the "Cash for Clunkers" program, a "socialist" giveaway that reanimated the corpse of our car industry — leading, for example, to the billion-dollar profit that Ford announced on Monday.
I haven't even mentioned Sonia Sotomayor, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the order to release the torture memos, Obama's push for charter schools, his $288 billion tax cut, or the end of Bush's war on medical marijuana. Or the minor fact that he seems to have — with Bush's help, it must be said — stopped the financial collapse, revived the credit markets, and nudged the economy toward 3.5 percent growth in the last quarter.
Oh, and one more thing: President Obama is now a month or two from accomplishing the awesome and seemingly impossible task that eluded mighty presidents like FDR, LBJ, and WJC — health-care reform.
Obama's early returns also include a host of remarkably cautious and prudent national-security decisions that seem, these days, to have been completely forgotten:
Appointing a conservative Bush holdover like Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense.
Appointing an establishment centrist like Leon Panetta at CIA.
Appointing a hard-ass like Stanley McChrystal to head up our military forces in Afghanistan, despite McChrystal's dubious involvement in torture and the cover-up of Pat Tillman's death.
Increasing the number of drone attacks on Al Qaeda — more in the last year than all the Bush years combined.
Reinstating, with tweaks, Bush's military tribunal system for Guantánamo prisoners.
Fighting, in another unexpected defense of a controversial Bush policy, lawsuits against the "warrantless wiretapping" program — as recently as this weekend with a decision that a leading civil liberties group called "extremely disappointing."
Sending, way back in February, seventeen thousand more soldiers to Afghanistan. As Fareed Zakaira recently pointed out, this was just three thousand fewer soldiers than Bush sent to Iraq for his famous "surge."
Noticing a pattern yet? The first half of Obama's accomplishments above is mostly liberal stuff. The bottom half is all pretty dang conservative. Which brings us to The Problem With America Today: Blame it on the Internet, on partisan politics, on the economic crash, on the legacy of war or Fox News or Michael Moore, but our vital center is getting stiff — and it is starting to stink.
Liberals are upset because Obama didn't shut down Guantánamo or stop the wiretapping program or end all wars or support gay marriage and kill Don't Ask Don't Tell. Conservatives are pissed off because they hate health-care reform, family planning, ending any war at all, organic gardening at the White House, and government in general.
What's worse, both sides are so angry and righteous that they can't even begin to give credit where it is due. When was the last time you heard a conservative cheer about that $288 billion tax cut? Or credit Obama for the centrism it took to appoint McChrystal, Panetta, and Gates? And how many liberals choose to be understanding about the practical difficulties of shutting down Guantánamo, achieving equal rights for gays, or tapping Al Qaeda's phones?
And where, on either side, can you find a scrap of humility about the staggeringly complex challenge of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Or a scrap of gratitude at having escaped global financial doom?
So the question, a year since we elected him, isn't how much Obama has accomplished. The question is why we've turned so small and mean that we only see half of it — the half we happen to agree with.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/ ... - captnkurt, on 11/09/2009, -5/+36Bromises before homises.
- purseonality, on 11/09/2009, -7/+37Only the GOP and FOX News called him the messiah.
- Pathetique, on 11/09/2009, -5/+33Don't you mean a binky bromise?
- zoomer123, on 11/09/2009, -4/+30Politifact is legit. Obama can take credit because he supports IT, encouraged Congress to support IT, and signed IT into law.
A press release from the Democratic Party would not include his broken promises. Even a staunch liberal like novenator is willing to highlight Obama's broken promises. But you...I don't know what the hell is wrong with you...
I looked at your last 50 comments on Digg. All about politics and religion. You really need to spend more time with your family, buddy. Because you're just wasting your life away. - growvideos, on 11/08/2009, -16/+40sounds like an excuse
- WasabiBomb, on 11/09/2009, -8/+32You guys gave Bush EIGHT YEARS to screw everything up... but when Obama hasn't turned everything around in less than a year, you're butthurt.
- pablocblanco, on 11/09/2009, -5/+26Bresident Pill Clinton proke a lot of bromises too.
- sputnikv, on 11/09/2009, -2/+20http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
- Kaegro, on 11/09/2009, -6/+23lol at every bodies favorite troll.
Obama has only been in office for about 9 months and he already made the US a better place and has made a better image of the US on the international stage...if only you, Beck, Fox & Foxx would stop making everything look like a farce. - dajuggernaut, on 11/09/2009, -1/+17from urban dictionary:
1) Bromise - Essentially a promise you make to a bro. One that you can never break. ever. Stronger than a promise.
"I bromise you that i will never sleep with your girlfriend. ever"
[Unless I can get her, like really really drunk] - OsceneInTx, on 11/09/2009, -2/+17"As a natural result of this over-promising, he's probably established the record for promises broken. "
Wow. This is what passes off as journalism now-a-days.
he "probably" has established the record for promises broken lol. What a ***** jackass.
This guy should "probably" quit his dayjob since it seems that he "probably" has a problem with facts, and can't be bothered to look up any credible information.
conjecture and commentary passed off as news for the win./s - Paranor01, on 11/09/2009, -1/+16@DavidNiven: If you were to review all the comments, from the start of the campaign until now, you will see that the only people who even think or call Obama a "Messiah", "Chosen One", etc. are you and the ones that think others think he is.
Have you not recognized that trend at all? Or are you blind to what you say as much as you are to the responses that you are given?
Just being curious. - 11oops, on 11/09/2009, -6/+21He's not even a quarter of the way through his term. You can't solve every problem in less than a year, especially considering the scale of the problems that were left for him.
- RichG13, on 11/09/2009, -3/+18Yes, make sure you get those 4-6 year projects done today. Don't lay any foundations or background work, just get them done today.
- jaytek13, on 11/09/2009, -6/+20Unfortunately campaign trails are always littered with promises one might not make true on. They could have the best of intentions to keep all those promises, but the fact of the matter is that this isn't a dictatorship, and the President (however unfortunate this is sometimes) has to deal with working and compromising with others.
- Nuttmeg, on 11/09/2009, -1/+13Presidential Election in 2010?? Idiot
- LilJimmyNordin, on 11/09/2009, -3/+14Oh *****.
- DaviDTC, on 11/09/2009, -1/+12They're actually meant to be proken.
- Satualanus69, on 11/09/2009, -0/+11Well said DH.................finally someone that reads!!!!!!
- ketedford, on 11/09/2009, -6/+17Borrect.
- mlvassallo, on 11/09/2009, -2/+12Thank you. I'm sick of these Sunshine Patriots.
- TheEggAndI, on 11/09/2009, -1/+11obama could make dry-humping motions behind palin during the debates, and he would still win over her.
- michrech, on 11/09/2009, -2/+11We did select (or chose, if you will) Obama, yes. It was either him, or the train-wreck that was McCain / Palin. It was a no-brainer, if you ask me...
- reticulate, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9Actually, the popular opinion on the left was that a Supreme Court shouldn't choose the President.
Nonetheless, he stayed in and had sky-high approvals for a period immediately following mid-September 2001, so I guess it evens out there. - ball4121, on 11/09/2009, -3/+11So I watched Eastern Bromises last night... great movie.
- teamr, on 11/09/2009, -11/+19Obviously he's the first president to not keep a campaign promise for one reason or the other, including Republican opposition. And as such should be BURNED AT THE STAKE LIKE THE TERRORIST HE IS!!!
/s - orangefly, on 11/09/2009, -6/+14like fox did and still does for bush....???....
- MacParrot, on 11/09/2009, -1/+9Well pretty much every President since Kennedy which is far back as I go
- Moralogic, on 11/09/2009, -2/+10Hey trolly,
Lets say he is 10 months (it hasn't been that long, but lets for with it) into his expected 8 year presidency, because he admitted that his promises would take 2 terms to complete.
8 years * 12 months a year = 96 months
10 months completed / 96 months total = 10.4% of the way through his expected presidency
Lets say he made 515 promises, which he roughly did.
10.4% * 515 = 53.56 promises
He has completed 52 promises, and has 137 more in the works. Let's say that 5% of those are almost complete, and if you would add up the amount of completion of the other 95% it would add up to being 5% complete.
137 * 5% = 6.85 + 53.56 = 60.41 promises as of now.
So that would put him actually ahead of schedule being pretty damn bias against Obama. This is why you fail at getting your point across trolly. You just never do the math. You act as if math was created by Satan. It makes me wonder how much you owe in taxes. - thebreach, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8In the end Obama is just one man, his initiatives have to go through several stages of fatcat bureaucrats before they ever see the light of day. Plus because of everything going on with a downed economy and a fractured parties on both sides, I would not expect all of his ideas to make it through the *****.
- Elranzer, on 11/09/2009, -3/+11*Someone says something positive about a Democrat, namely Obama*
DavidNiven: "*****!" *Proceed with irrational partisan rabble that contains absolutely no facts, logic or sense.* (Then gets laughed at by everyone on Digg and buried). - Delphium226, on 11/09/2009, -2/+10@David
Aww diddums, shall we bring Incurious George back?
At least he was white and allegedly a christian. - mlw4428, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8Yes, because I want a President who could see "Russia from my house." and have nothing else going for her. Hell, Tina Feye made a better, more intelligent Sarah Palin then Sarah Palin did.
- geoboy, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7CapnSlam? More like "CapnSpam"
- breadfred, on 11/09/2009, -4/+11I just want sex NOW
/average digg user - directedition, on 11/09/2009, -3/+10Why is he being dug down? It's true. Only the things they don't care to keep secret are posted there. All the while Obama's administration tries to keep a copyright treaty secret because of "national security concerns". Obama has done many things right, but transparency is not one of them.
- sgerwel1985, on 11/09/2009, -4/+11I didn't vote for the man, but i will say one thing...
I'd rather him break his promise than go into things with no information and really screw something up. Call me crazy for this logic, but i gotta give him a little pat on the back for that one. - kyates6, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7I'll be satisfied if he a) overturns DOMA and b) gets health care legislation passed. Other than that, it would be nice if he would do some other things that he promised, but it's his first term, and he really can't go all out leftist democrat until he gets reelected for his second. :/
- mkriss5681, on 11/09/2009, -4/+11Has the honeymoon bromance between America and Obama ended?
- Moralogic, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8I am starting to think he is an employee of Fox or the GOP with his mindless trolling that never really pays attention to people's replies that prove him wrong time and time again.
- Solkre, on 11/09/2009, -6/+12Don't forget free health care!
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