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President Obama's State of the Union Address 2011
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Eosian Wrote:Conveniently in this day of technology and media, yes.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/


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ObamaGOPObama %GOP %
Kept134126%2%
Compromise418%0%
Broken388%0%
Stalled7114%0%
In Progress220943%16%
NR2470%82%
Total50657100%100%


So that's approximately 22% failed to meet there counting stalled.
That list will take a while to go through, but I do know several important promises he broke:
Nafta and Cafta remain unchallenged.
Our troops are still in Iraq.
Obama is expanding upon Guantanimo.
He is rushing bills through congress inspite of his promise to make bills avalible online for several days for the public to read before congress votes on the bills.
And I could go on, but I'll stop here untill I read your source. But assuming your source is 100% accurate, this would mean that Obama only kept 26% of his promises. Where I come from, that is an F, a Failure. And that doesnt even account for the degree of importance of every promise. So far as I look at this list, only minor promises are kept, while the major ones where shattered.

Edit: and I love how you try to include a GOP meter as well. There is a major difference between comparing a group of a hundred people (many of these people never took part in promising the listed promises) and comparing them to one person who made every promise personally.


And our involvement in Afganistan has been longer than our direct involvement in Vietnam.
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President Obama's State of the Union Address 2011 - by Anonymous Moose - 2011-01-26, 05:58 PM

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