Issue Date: 12/7/09
Obama continues to fulfill campaign promises
By Bert Hansen
On Jan. 20 President Barack Obama will have officially been in office for one year. He is doing a fine job, considering Obama is dealing with two unpopular wars, the worst financial crisis since the 1930s while simultaneously trying to pass much needed health care reform.
From a storybook campaign to the heavy backlash from protesting Tea Partying conservatives, some who would probably blame the president for increasing the world's surplus population if he managed to cure cancer. With Obama recently deciding to add 30,000 more troops to the mission in Afghanistan - and possibly alienating anti-war liberals and do-more conservatives alike - his administration promises to be anything but boring.
Like all politicians, President Obama made a lot of promises in his campaign.
In terms of living up to those promises, Politifact claims that the president has fulfilled 57 promises, has broken seven, has 165 in the works and has yet to do anything about 254 campaign vows. It's a full plate but promising in that there are more promises fulfilled than broken. Of course the most difficult pledges are still in the works, but it makes sense they would take longer to complete.
The president has had do some politically unpopular things like buying into the automotive industry, but Japan invested heavily in its car industry and they now command one of the most efficient automotive markets in the world.
He made a controversial effort to reengage Muslims in a dialogue by delivering speeches in Turkey and Egypt and appeared for an interview on an Arab news station shortly after taking office. He also made deliberate attempts to reinitiate communications with Iran to which some right-wing partisans incorrectly drew parallels with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis in World War II.
President Obama has faced a large amount of criticism from both citizens and politicians alike. First he was the subject of a rather vicious and sensationalized conspiracy theory that claimed his birth certificate was a forgery and that he was in fact not a U.S. citizen.
Sen. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) called the president a liar in the middle of a speech. Citizens have been protesting government spending, never mind that many of them seemed to support George Bush's $700 billion bailout or that many of these "grassroots" movements are funded and supported by Richard Army's Freedom Works or are advertised on Fox News out of Fox's own pockets.
Despite blatant and sometimes downright asinine partisan attacks from the right, President Obama is continuing to do what he said he would do and that is what the majority of Americans voted for.
Barack Obama is doing a damn fine job.
From a storybook campaign to the heavy backlash from protesting Tea Partying conservatives, some who would probably blame the president for increasing the world's surplus population if he managed to cure cancer. With Obama recently deciding to add 30,000 more troops to the mission in Afghanistan - and possibly alienating anti-war liberals and do-more conservatives alike - his administration promises to be anything but boring.
Like all politicians, President Obama made a lot of promises in his campaign.
In terms of living up to those promises, Politifact claims that the president has fulfilled 57 promises, has broken seven, has 165 in the works and has yet to do anything about 254 campaign vows. It's a full plate but promising in that there are more promises fulfilled than broken. Of course the most difficult pledges are still in the works, but it makes sense they would take longer to complete.
The president has had do some politically unpopular things like buying into the automotive industry, but Japan invested heavily in its car industry and they now command one of the most efficient automotive markets in the world.
He made a controversial effort to reengage Muslims in a dialogue by delivering speeches in Turkey and Egypt and appeared for an interview on an Arab news station shortly after taking office. He also made deliberate attempts to reinitiate communications with Iran to which some right-wing partisans incorrectly drew parallels with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis in World War II.
President Obama has faced a large amount of criticism from both citizens and politicians alike. First he was the subject of a rather vicious and sensationalized conspiracy theory that claimed his birth certificate was a forgery and that he was in fact not a U.S. citizen.
Sen. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) called the president a liar in the middle of a speech. Citizens have been protesting government spending, never mind that many of them seemed to support George Bush's $700 billion bailout or that many of these "grassroots" movements are funded and supported by Richard Army's Freedom Works or are advertised on Fox News out of Fox's own pockets.
Despite blatant and sometimes downright asinine partisan attacks from the right, President Obama is continuing to do what he said he would do and that is what the majority of Americans voted for.
Barack Obama is doing a damn fine job.
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Anon Y. Mous
posted 1/19/10 @ 6:06 PM PST
Mr. Hansen,
You have failed to list any of the promises that Barack has made or broken. All I read in your article was how much opposition he has had to put up with. (Continued…)
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