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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.

 
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  • Posted By: Fernadez @ 11/24/2009 7:13:26 PM

    Funny how the GOP never want to address their *own* approval ratings.
    I wonder why....


    Republican approval ratings?

    Maybe the media know that even the Dogs are not interested perharps!

  • Posted By: Fernadez @ 11/24/2009 7:04:15 PM

    You should ask Bush and the repigs yourself and how to dismissed 350 billion in 7 days,)one trillion in 8 years for stupid wars.President Obama should,pass a war tax fast and watch the repukes call for an end to the war in future.superfast.President obama does not have to lift a finger, pass the tax and watch the rats jump off the ship.
    By the way did you know that How Many European,Chinese and others,around the world lost their Job too!!!!Because an Idiot like you voted only IDIOT

  • Posted By: astro_man @ 11/17/2009 4:22:48 PM

    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."

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