President Obama has been in office for exactly 478 days. That puts him only 32.74% of the way through his first term. While on the campaign trail, he made a total of 504 promises that can be verified by politifact.com.
Of those 504 promises, how many of them would you guess to have had zero action taken on them? 400? 300? 250? 150?
Bzzzzt. Too high.
The answer: 3
Yes, that is correct. Of the 504 promises Obama made on the campaign trail, there are only 3 that his administration has not taken any action on.
What is even more amazing is what those three promises are.
More below...
Here is the link.
As amazing as this is, the three promises he has yet to take some kind of action on are even more amazing. Here they are...
So what conclusions can we draw from this?
I'd say that Obama is doing the job we elected him to do. I'd also say that those last three promises may get checked off in the very near future (I hope). We shall see.
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Some have pointed out that 19 broken promises shouldn't be counted as having taken action. My response to that is it just depends. Rolling over without a fight is different than trying and have something backfire. I suggest clicking the link below and reading about those 19 broken promises and decide for yourself. Here's a relevant comment from nzanne...
Really interesting breakdown (0+ / 0-)
of promises broken.
Some are due to budget problems perhaps unforeseen when campaigning (ie, doubling the Peace Corps, pay for national service plan w/o increasing the deficit). Some are bad (IMO): barring prescription drugs from Canada, etc.
by nzanne on Thu May 13, 2010 at 01:41:38 PM PDT
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Here's the link to Promises Broken