Stacy`s Soapbox: Randi Rhodes: FACT CHECK: Barack Obama, Promises Kept It's been nearly four years. How many promises did President Obama actually keep?

Friday, September 7, 2012

Randi Rhodes: FACT CHECK: Barack Obama, Promises Kept It's been nearly four years. How many promises did President Obama actually keep?

It's a habit for virtually any candidate running for virtually any race - making huge amounts of promises.

For President Barack Obama, that habit wasn't any different when he ran for President in 2008. Multiple organizations counted hundreds of promises back then, and as the President's first term is nearly complete, these organizations are counting up the successes and failures. So far, the general consensus seems to be that President Obama has either kept, partially kept, compromised with Republicans to reach his goal, or in some way made progress, on most of his promises.

Here are three examples, as fact-checked by CBS News:

On Tax Reform: "I will -- listen now -- I will cut taxes -- cut taxes -- for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
STATUS OF PROMISE: KEPT
On Health Care: "Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American."
STATUS OF PROMISE: PARTIALLY KEPT
On Foreign Policy: "I will end this war in Iraq responsibly..."
STATUS OF PROMISE: KEPT