President Obama's State of the Union Address 2011

Funny, cause I see 51% there that aren't broken, in addition to the 26% that are "Kept". You can't say he only kept 26% if they're not broken yet.



There are also substantially fewer promises made by them, and being made by an entire party rather than a single figurehead who then has to work with both parties to accomplish one would think those fewer promises would be easier to keep. If you really paid attention you'd note that the majority of them haven't even been rated yet so any conclusion you attempt to draw from their results would be idiotic. They were merely included because they were also there.

If you where paying attention, I only stated that comparing an entire party to one person is idiotic.

You are misinterpreting it. He has 26% kept, and 73% that he has an excuse for not keeping. Too bad all that matters in the end is whether he kept his word or not.

And honestly, we should be focusing on his more major promises:

"We've got a philosophical difference, which we've debated repeatedly, and that is that Sen. Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it" (spoken during the Democratic presidential debate on Feb. 21, 2008).

And he contradicted himself when HR3200 mandated the purchase of insurance.

"We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. … That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws" (spoken in Miami on May 23, 2008).

And he has done the opposite. He has criticized and blocked Arizona for enforcing border security and has denied his constitutional duty to protect the country from foreign invaders (specifically the Drug Cartels).

"Based on the conversations we've had internally as well as external reports, we believe that you can get one to two brigades out a month. At that pace, the forces would be out in approximately 16 months from the time that we began. That would be the time frame that I would be setting up" (spoken to the New York Times on Nov. 1, 2007, about the withdraw from Iraq).

Last time I checked, 16 months is less than 3 years.

"There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means, and we're going to have to make some adjustments. Now, what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut" (spoken during the third presidential debate on Oct. 15, 2008).

Source: John Stossel blog at Fox Business

What has Obama cut? I've only seen an increase in spending.

"We are going to ban all earmarks" (spoken at a press conference on Jan. 6, 2009).

Laughable since almost all bills he has signed where loaded with them.

"Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase – not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes" (spoken in September 2008 at a town-hall meeting in Dover).

And yet, he intends on passing carbon taxes and the healthcare bill was ruled by federal courts to be a tax.

And these are just to name a few major ones.

And why is Guantanimo open still?

Edit: more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFY..._embedded#!
And can we? Obviously not, the final versions of many bills where voted on asap, not after 5 days.

Edit2: I found a lie in your source. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...from-iraq/
He promised we would be out within 16 months (actually, he promised several times with several different deadlines), but they claim that "Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq" means the promise is kept. The war is still going on. Americans are still dying there. The promise was never kept.

Edit3: And yes he is just like Bush and his signing statements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAR1S1Mj...-standard/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/pol...r=3&ref=us