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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on July 16, 2010, 10:10:03 PM
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In November of 2008 I created the Barack Obama Promise Tracker, an excel file cataloging 895 campaign promises that I personally culled from all of Mr. Obama’s speeches and his undated internet published Plan for America. This excel file is downloadable, shareable, contains links to original sources and has a keyword search function.
A look at the numbers show he has kept 26% of his promises thus far; broken 13%; and either has no action, pending action, or stalled action on 61%. He is scoring poorly on promise keeping in categories such as Economy and Ethics and scoring well in social spending categories such as Energy, Family, Health Care, and Urban Policy.
This excel file is unequivocal objective proof that the Stimulus Bill was a promise keeper bill, not a jobs bill as positioned. Obama’s campaign promises never centered around jobs but social spending. We did not need a stimulus bill or a jobs bill in September of 2008. Either it was the intention of the new government to spend massive amounts of money all along OR they created the poor economy as an excuse to spend massive amounts of money. The rapidity of its authorship along with the amount of pre-economic collapse promises funded with this bill proves this fact.
ideapalooza (http://ideapalooza.com/blog/?p=1298)
The Barack Obama Promise Tracker (http://ideapalooza.com/ideas/idea/119)
I had forgotten about this blog. Good thing he sent out an email today.