First: (to an earlier poster who actually probably won't even read this) If you go to the Politifact website, you'll see that of the 241 rated Obama promises, he's only broken 7. That's about 3% of the promises. There are 16 promises showcased in the article and one, or 6%, of them is listed as broken. So the broken rate is overrepresented twofold in this article. If it favors anyone, it's not the President. Put 16 more non-broken promises into this article and that'll level the playing field.
Second: According to the same website, here's the stats of some other people. Boehner tells the truth 4/13 times. Glenn Beck tells the truth 0/8 times. Pelosi tells the truth 1/5 times. Palin tells the truth 7-12/30 times. Limbaugh tells the truth 0-1/8 times. And Bono apparently never tells the truth.
Third: 54 of the 241 rated Obama promises have been kept. Most of the others are "in the works."
The president promised a lot. A check on how’s he’s delivered so far.
Presidents and promises have been comrades since the birth of our nation. Sometimes, the vows have been bold: Lyndon B. Johnson pledged to eliminate poverty in his 1964 State of the Union Address. Obviously, that didn't happen. Other times, the promises have been mostly fulfilled, as when Roosevelt announced his iconic New Deal. Throughout the recent presidential campaign, President Obama made more than 500 promises to our nation, according to PolitiFact, a service from the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times that assesses the truth behind politicians' statements. After Obama's first 100 days in office, we check in with PolitiFact to see how the new president is doing.
Email To A Friend
Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.
Member Comments
-
Posted By: astro_man @ 11/17/2009 4:22:48 PM
-
Posted By: BugsyParis @ 11/17/2009 11:26:50 AM
allegations you can't prove ms. non-communist
-
Posted By: Ms Non-Communist @ 11/17/2009 1:45:54 AM
More Obama fodder! Was this written by his PR staff? With 500 promises, you WOULD be hard-pressed to find 12 or so that were fulfilled. The man LIES daily and has been caught in SO MANY LIES, he has made a fool of mainstream media.
Report Abuse
Enter comments if any for reporting abuse
- Twenty five years feels right in my bones and right in my spirit. Oprah on ending her showCST
- It’s going to be a holy war Orrin Hatch on debate over the Senate health billNYT
- The nation and the world will see him for the coward he is Holder, on trying KSMAP
- I'm not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will have to say. Holder on terror trialsREUT
- The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist. Sarah Palin on the magazine coverCSM
Discuss