Politifact on President Obama’s campaign promises:
By my math, that is 513 campaign promises. 9 have been broken. On 18, a compromise has been reached. 75 promises have been kept. The rest, some 411, are still in the works. Now, if you are a purist, there can be no compromise ever. And God help you if you break your promise. And for some, all 513 campaign promises should have been completed by now and Obama should just be relaxing during the rest of his term, I guess. I am not happy about the broken promises, and I will criticize and have criticized Obama for those broken pledges. As for the compromises, I am smart and adult enough to realize that I can’t always get all that I want, so I do not necessarily lambaste Obama for compromises. I’m not thrilled with the slow pace of Gitmo, but with the federal purchase of that prison in Illinois, I am encouraged this promise will go from being stalled to being fulfilled shortly. Next, I want EFCA and DADT tackled, not to mention Cap and Trade.
On the whole though, as those above numbers suggest, Obama is doing well on his promises. I can live 1.75% of Obama’s promises being broken. But the purists, and whatever the hell Donviti is, can’t.
[UPDATE]: My math sucks. I missed a step in my calculations, and Christina School Board member John Young was kind enough to correct me. I have edited the post.