Some of President Obama's 2008 Campaign Promises

[CuteOldGuy]

These are Obama's campaign promises. Which ones did he keep?


Presidential Promises

Obama's Ethics Agenda, as according to Change.gov:

Shine the Light on Washington Lobbying

Centralize Ethics and Lobbying Information for Voters: Obama and Biden will create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format.

Require Independent Monitoring of Lobbying Laws and Ethics Rules: Obama and Biden will use the power of the presidency to fight for an independent watchdog agency to oversee the investigation of congressional ethics violations so that the public can be assured that ethics complaints will be investigated.

End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful spending and lawmakers won't be able to slip favors for lobbyists into bills at the last minute.

Shine the Light on Federal Contracts, Tax Breaks and Earmarks

Create a Public "Contracts and Influence" Database: As president, Obama will create a "contracts and influence" database that will disclose how much federal contractors spend on lobbying, and what contracts they are getting and how well they complete them.
Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will ensure that any tax breaks for corporate recipients -- or tax earmarks -- are also publicly available on the Internet in an easily searchable format.

End Abuse of No-Bid Contracts: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will end abuse of no-bid contracts by requiring that nearly all contract orders over $25,000 be competitively awarded.

Sunlight Before Signing: Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, 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.

Shine Light on Earmarks and Pork Barrel Spending: Obama's Transparency and Integrity in Earmarks Act will shed light on all earmarks by disclosing the name of the legislator who asked for each earmark, along with a written justification, 72 hours before they can be approved by the full Senate.

Bring Americans Back into their Government

Hold 21st Century Fireside Chats: Obama will bring democracy and policy directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to hold periodic national broadband townhall meetings to discuss issues before their agencies.

Make White House Communications Public: Obama will amend executive orders to ensure that communications about regulatory policymaking between persons outside government and all White House staff are disclosed to the public.

Conduct Regulatory Agency Business in Public: Obama will require his appointees who lead the executive branch departments and rulemaking agencies to conduct the significant business of the agency in public, so that any citizen can see these debates in person or watch them on the internet.

Release Presidential Records: Obama and Biden will nullify attempts to make the timely release of presidential records more difficult.

Free the Executive Branch from Special Interest Influence

Close the Revolving Door on Former and Future Employers: No political appointees in the Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.

Free Career Officials from the Influence of Politics: Obama will issue an executive order asking all new hires at the agencies to sign a form affirming that no political appointee offered them the job solely on the basis of political affiliation or contribution.

Reform the Political Appointee Process: FEMA Director Michael Brown was not qualified to head the agency, and the result was a disaster for the people of the Gulf Coast. But in the Obama-Biden administration, every official will have to rise to the standard of proven excellence in the agency's mission.

Enforce Executive Branch Ethics: The Obama-Biden administration will give the Office of Governmental Ethics strong enforcement authority with the ability to make binding regulations, and it will work with inspectors general in all the federal agencies to enforce ethics rules, minimize waste and ensure federal officials are not using their offices for personal gain. The OGE will also be the clearinghouse of all public records relevant to ethics in the Executive Branch and place this information on its website. Finally, the OGE will promulgate rules and procedures to record all oral and in-person "lobbying contacts" between registered lobbyists and political appointees and make those records available to the public in a searchable computerized database.

Spend Taxpayer Money Wisely

Performance Team and Chief Performance Officer: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will create a focused team within the White House that will work with agency leaders and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to improve results and outcomes for federal government programs while eliminating waste and inefficiency. This unit, a SWAT team, will be composed of top-performing and highly-trained government professionals and be headed by a new Chief Performance Officer (CPO) who will report directly to the president. The CPO will work with federal agencies to set tough performance targets and hold managers responsible for progress. The president will meet regularly with cabinet officers to review the progress their agencies are making toward meeting performance improvement targets.

Streamline Government Procurement: Barack Obama will implement the GAO's recommendations to reduce erroneous federal payments, reduce procurement costs with purchase cards, and implement better management of surplus federal property. These initiatives will save $4.5 billion a year.

Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.

Line-by-Line Review of Spending: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will conduct an exhaustive line-by-line review of the federal budget, work to eliminate government programs that are not performing, and demand that new initiatives be selected on the basis of their merits -- not through a political process that rewards lobbyists and campaign donors.

Slash Earmarks: Earmarks grew from $7.8 billion in 1994 to $29 billion in 2006. Barack Obama is committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994.

Shed Sunlight on Corporate Tax Loopholes: The tax code is riddled with corporate loopholes and preferential regulations that benefit a handful of companies at the expense of the rest of the business community as well as ordinary families. Some large companies have managed to secure tax breaks or hide their profits in overseas tax havens to avoid paying any American corporate taxes at all. Obama and Biden will require any tax bill considered by Congress to include a Corporate Tax Impact Statement that would disclose which industries or specific companies would be expected to benefit from the new tax breaks.

Relevant Exceprts from Obama's Technology Agenda, as according to Change.gov:

Create a Transparent and Connected Democracy

Open Up Government to its Citizens: Use cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens.

Bring Government into the 21st Century: Use technology to reform government and improve the exchange of information between the federal government and citizens while ensuring the security of our networks. Appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure the safety of our networks and lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information officers of each of the federal agencies, to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies and share best practices.

from http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Oba...parency_Record

How can anyone support this guy? He lied about EVERY ONE of the above goals. EVERY LAST GOD DAMN ONE!

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

These are Obama's campaign promises. Which ones did he keep?

Thanks for reminding me for the fourth time StupidOldFart!


It continues to slip my mind that President Obama has been hiding that he is a Kenyan born Muslim, who "nominally" holds a Made in USA, Hawaiian Birth Certificate!

[CuteOldGuy]

Ignoring the article, aren't you, BigTurd. That's ok. The truth hurts.

Strange, the article didn't mention anything about where he was born, only what he promised to do as President, and didn't.

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

where he was born

Thanks for reminding me about "where he was born" StupidOldFart.


It continues to slip my mind that President Obama has been hiding that he is a Kenyan born Muslim, who "nominally" holds a Made in USA, Hawaiian Birth Certificate!

[CuteOldGuy]

Ya got nothin', right, BigTurd? I wouldn't want to answer that list if I supported Obama either.

[JD Barleycorn]

You used too many words COG. You have to keep it simple. Obama promised to:
Close Gitmo
Have a transparent administration
Have no lobbyists in the White House
Make the USA respected in the world again
End the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bring the troops home
Create millions of shovel ready jobs
Bring home all those jobs that went over seas
you see, just keep it simple like your audience.

[Seedy]

COG, and JD, you forgot a few more.

1. To increase. The unemployment rate..... successfull

2. To increase taxes on hard WORKING americans....successfull...osc uminablecare

3. To become a two bit dictator....successfull... total dissregard for the constitution, makes his own laws...as recently as yesterday with the welfare reform...

4. To drive corporations almost out of buisness...ie. Gibson Guitar Co..mandating they get their wood. Or some fucking thing from Madagascar.....fuckwad piece of shit....

5. To be the biggest lying snake cocksucker to ever hold ANY OFFICE ANYWHERE. Has NEVER spoken a word of truth, and never worked a day in his pathetic fucking life....SUCCESSFULL

6. To pull off some of the biggest scams of all time with his "Green Movement". My bowl movements created more jobs than this scam....LOL at least we have sewer treatment workers.....

I`ll add some more tomorrow, I had a long fucking day at work, and my thin ass is draggin.... just some food for thought

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by seedman55

COG, and JD, you forgot a few more.

1. To increase. The unemployment rate..... successfull

2. To increase taxes on hard WORKING americans....successfull...osc uminablecare

3. To become a two bit dictator....successfull... total dissregard for the constitution, makes his own laws...as recently as yesterday with the welfare reform...

4. To drive corporations almost out of buisness...ie. Gibson Guitar Co..mandating they get their wood. Or some fucking thing from Madagascar.....fuckwad piece of shit....

5. To be the biggest lying snake cocksucker to ever hold ANY OFFICE ANYWHERE. Has NEVER spoken a word of truth, and never worked a day in his pathetic fucking life....SUCCESSFULL

6. To pull off some of the biggest scams of all time with his "Green Movement". My bowl movements created more jobs than this scam....LOL at least we have sewer treatment workers.....

I`ll add some more tomorrow, I had a long fucking day at work, and my thin ass is draggin.... just some food for thought

You are a far distant second to cog's level of douche baggery but you certainly deserve honorable mention.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

You used too many words COG. You have to keep it simple. Obama promised to:
Close Gitmo
Have a transparent administration
Have no lobbyists in the White House
Make the USA respected in the world again
End the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bring the troops home
Create millions of shovel ready jobs
Bring home all those jobs that went over seas
you see, just keep it simple like your audience.

Keep it simple like you normally do.

You know, just make shit up or just lie.

Politifact says he broke 15% of his promises.
Close Gitmo is one you have.
I know you won't but can you provide links to any of your statements with Obama quoted as saying them?

[Whirlaway]

You can always start your own thread of lies - "Obama's Kept Promises" !




Obama's most diappoining broken promise: to heal the divide of racism. Instead he governs (and campgains) by dividing Americans; piting races, cultures, economic classes, and genders against one another.

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

You used too many words COG. You have to keep it simple. Obama promised to:
Close Gitmo
Have a transparent administration
Have no lobbyists in the White House
Make the USA respected in the world again
End the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bring the troops home
Create millions of shovel ready jobs
Bring home all those jobs that went over seas
you see, just keep it simple like your audience.

One of the biggest Obama lies, or at least failures, is his promise to cut the deficit in half. Bush's biggest deficit was approximately four hundred billion. If Obama had cut it in half, that's two hundred billion. Instead of cutting the deficit to two hundred billion, Obama ballooned it to NINE TIMES that much, to 1.8 trillion in 2009. He was off by 900%!

Here's a side by side comparison of Bush's deficits and Obama's deficits.



http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/...t-in-pictures/

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by joe bloe

One of the biggest Obama lies, or at least failures, is his promise to cut the deficit in half. Bush's biggest deficit was approximately four hundred billion. If Obama had cut it in half, that's two hundred billion. Instead of cutting the deficit to two hundred billion, Obama ballooned it to NINE TIMES that much, to 1.8 trillion in 2009. He was off by 900%!

Here's a side by side comparison of Bush's deficits and Obama's deficits.



http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/...t-in-pictures/

A failure, not a lie.
And why anyone thinks a single person can do most of these things shows how stupid anyone can be. If it makes you feel better to think his campaign promises are pre-meditated lies go ahead.
Too bad the deffinition of "Lie" needed to make him a liar makes the vast majority of posters on this site liars.

Look on Politifact and you'll see the vast majority of promises have been addressed. Some were broken (15%), some kept (37%), some compromised (13%), some stalled (11%) and some still in the works (24%).

You'll have to forgive me that I don't accept your "interpretation" of his promises. Politifact uses direct quotes to state his promises. You accept "interpretations" of his promises from anyplace, anyone, or any source that, regardless of what he really said, backs up your take on the matter.

If only you could add links that give direct quotes.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

You can always start your own thread of lies - "Obama's Kept Promises" !




Obama's most diappoining broken promise: to heal the divide of racism. Instead he governs (and campgains) by dividing Americans; piting races, cultures, economic classes, and genders against one another.

I could post the set of kept promises from Politifact.

But true to form, you would call them lies without a single shred of proof. You never answer link requests when you're talking out of your ass.

And I'm calling you on this one. Show a quote from the President promising what you stated. Show a link to the statement or stay in the background as someone is usually full of shit.

OK?

[CuteOldGuy]

The Obamazombies respond. I posted fact. Munchie ignores it. Fine.

[Whirlaway]

Munchmouth; you might be on to somthing, one of Obama's accomplishes = NOT heal the racial divided. in fact his obvious attempts to divide us racially has succeed. Mission Accomplised !

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

I could post the set of kept promises from Politifact.

But true to form, you would call them lies without a single shred of proof. You never answer link requests when you're talking out of your ass.

And I'm calling you on this one. Show a quote from the President promising what you stated. Show a link to the statement or stay in the background as someone is usually full of shit.

OK?