Promises Kept

[Cigar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lA2fCs-_fyo



President Obama's campaign is looking to build anticipation for Thursday night's acceptance speech with a new video highlighting achievements from the president's first term.

The Web ad, titled "Promises Kept," uses clips of Obama's 2008 acceptance speech to argue that the president has made good on the pledges he made during his last White House run.

"From cutting taxes for middle-class families to bringing about comprehensive healthcare reform to reinvesting in education and infrastructure, President Obama has kept his promise to rebuild America for millions of families," the Obama campaign said in a statement.

Among the claims: that Obama signed 18 tax cuts, created 4.5 million private-sector jobs, ended the war in Iraq and signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The video also credits Obama for saving the U.S. auto industry, passing the Affordable Care Act and investing in alternative energy.


http://thehill.com/video/campaign/247899-obama-web-video-uses-08-convention-speech-to-build-excitement

[keymanjim]

The minor promises kept don't outweigh the major promises broken.

[Cigar]

4-Instance :)

[coolwalker]

here is one of your favorite things Cigar, an image:

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[coolwalker]

Sorry about the size of the image, the forum won't allow for the full size.

Obama In 2009: “If I Don’t Have This Done In Three Years, Then There’s Going To Be A One-Term Proposition.” OBAMA: “That’s exactly right. And - and, you know, a year from now I think people - are going to see that - we’re starting to make some progress. But there’s still going to be some pain out there. If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.” (NBC’s ” The Today Show,” 2/2/09)

Since President Obama Took Office, The Nation Has Lost 473,000 Jobs And The Unemployment Rate Has Increased From 7.8 Percent To 8.2 Percent. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 7/6/12)

23.4 Million Americans Are Unemployed, Underemployed Or Have Given Up Looking For Work. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 7/6/12)

45 Million People Received Food Stamps In 2011, A 70 Percent Increase From 2007, And Will Continue Growing Until 2014. “The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.” (Damian Paletta, “Food Stamp Rolls To Grow Through 2014,” The Wall Street Journal’s “Real Time Economics,” 4/19/12)


•“The CBO Projected That One In Seven U.S. Residents Received Food Stamps Last Year.” (Damian Paletta, “Food Stamp Rolls To Grow Through 2014,” The Wall Street Journal’s “Real Time Economics,” 4/19/12)

Unemployment Below 8 Percent

Obama promised that his $831 billion stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent. But since then, the unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent for a post-World War 2 record amount of time.

The Unemployment Rate Has Remained Above Eight Percent For A Record 41 Straight Months. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 7/6/12)


•Congressional Budget Office: Unemployment Has Remained Above Eight Percent For The Longest Stretch Since The Great Depression. “The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression.”(“Understanding And Responding To Persistently High Unemployment,” Congressional Budget Office, 2/16/12)

Where Are The Green Jobs?

Obama promised his bets on green energy would create thousands of jobs, but instead gave a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan to Solyndra, a company whose largest investor was a major Obama campaign donor. The company went bankrupt and the taxpayers lost all of the money it had given to Solyndra.

“The Green Economy Is Not Proving To Be The Job-Creation Engine That Many Politicians Envisioned.” “In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream.” (Aaron Glantz, “Number Of Green Jobs Fails To Live Up To Promises,” The New York Times, 8/18/11)

“Solyndra, A Solar-Panel Maker That Went Bankrupt In August With $535 Million In Federally Backed Loans, Was Riskier Than Many Other Proposals, Industry Executives Say.” (Steven Mufson And Carol D. Leonning, “Some Clean-Energy Firms Found US Loan-Guarantee Program A Bad Bet,” The Washington Post, 9/26/11)

A Total Of 1,861 Workers Were Laid Off By Solyndra As It Went Bankrupt. “Since September 1, 2010 (impact date), an estimate 1,861 workers have been separated from the firm. This total includes an estimated 649 temporary workers as well as leased workers from West Valley, Aerotek, Oxford Global, GES and Lighthouse Management. Most of these separations occurred at the time of the shut-down of the Fremont, CA facility on August 31, 2011. An additional 85 workers are threatened with separation as the company’s operations wind down.” (Employment And Training Administration, “Investigative Report TA-W-80,410; Solyndra LLC,” Department Of Labor, 9/12/11)

Cut The Deficit In Half?

Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Because of his reckless spending, he will have amassed record trillion dollar deficits every year in office and increased the national debt by more than $5 trillion.

PROMISE: In February 2009, Obama Said That He Would “Cut The Deficit In Half By The End Of [His] First Term In Office.” OBAMA: “Yesterday, I held a fiscal summit where I pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office.” (President Obama, Address to Joint Session of Congress, 2/24/09)

BROKEN: The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein: “The Obama Administration Is Officially Breaking Its Promise To Halve The Deficit By The End Of Their First Term.” (Ezra Klein, “Wonkbook: 5 Things To Watch In Obama’s 2013 Budget,” The Washington Post ‘s Wonkbook, 2/13/12)


•Klein: “The 2013 budget envisions a deficit of more than $1 trillion — not halved by any stretch of the imagination.” (Ezra Klein, “Wonkbook: 5 Things To Watch In Obama’s 2013 Budget,” The Washington Post ‘s Wonkbook, 2/13/12)

[Cigar]

here is one of your favorite things Cigar, an image:

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Look it up sport
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html

[coolwalker]

Look it up sport
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html

Look above you..."Sport". Answer those diddies.

[keymanjim]

Look it up sport
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html
You do know that's a blog, don't you?

[DonGlock26]

here is one of your favorite things Cigar, an image:

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Ouch! Anyone got a steak?


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[AceFrehley]

4-Instance :)

Closing Gitmo.

Cutting the deficit in half.

Ending the Patriot Act.

Starting his own war for oil.

Keeping unemployment at 8%.

Not having lobbyists in his administration.

Airing health care negotiations on CNBC.

Thank god none of these were very important promises, eh?

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[Mainecoons]

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promises kept

[Trinnity]

ObamaFail.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6rwg8voSP1r6wt2jo6_400.jpg

[Spookycolt]

My personal favorite from Obama:

Allowing all bills to be posted for 72 hours for the public to review before he signs them into law. That lasted about 2 weeks I believe.

This man is a liar.

[Cigar]

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/

[Spookycolt]

Allow five days of public comment before signing bills

To reduce bills rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them, Obama "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."

Obama signs first law without Web comment

Updated: Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | By Angie Drobnic Holan (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/staff/angie-drobnic-holan/)
One of President Obama's major campaign planks was making government more open and accountable. It's a reaction to a habit in Congress of rushing bills through the House and Senate without giving people much opportunity to know what the bills would do. Indeed, sometimes members of Congress don't even know what's in the bills. (http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=weeklyreport-000002992032)

So Obama pledged during the campaign to institute "sunlight before signing."

"Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them," Obama's campaign Web site states (http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/). "As president, Obama will not sign any nonemergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days."

But the first bill Obama signed into law as president — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/411/work-to-overturn-ledbetter-vs-goodyear/)— got no such vetting.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/234/allow-five-days-of-public-comment-before-signing-b/

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