Top 10 Obama promises kept

[Icarus27k]

According to the fact-checking website PolitiFact.com

1. End the use of torture
Obama said he would stop the torture of terror suspects, and human rights experts say he did.

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2. Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles
In 2010, the Senate ratified a new START treaty for the United States and Russia to verify reductions in nuclear weapons.

3. Create new financial regulations
Obama signed a massive overhaul of financial regulations in 2010. It included a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the little guy.

4. Sign a "universal" health care bill
Republicans may hate the individual mandate, but it allows Obama to make a credible case that the health care law will lead to universal coverage.

5. Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
A rare compromise with Republicans at the end of 2010 left in place current tax rates for middle-class Americans. What happens when they expire in 2013 is the great unknown.

6. Fully fund the Veterans Administration
It doesn’t get much attention, but Obama kept his promises on veterans, sending more money and resources to programs that serve them.

7. Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
Obama did as he said, bringing the Iraq war to its conclusion. A Promise Kept for a huge campaign issue.

8. Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
The policy that stopped gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military ended in 2011.

9. Raise fuel economy standards
Obama won increases for the required miles-per-gallon in cars, reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions.

10. We will kill bin Laden
On the campaign trail, Obama said the United States would go after Osama bin Laden if it got the chance. When U.S. forces found the terrorist in Pakistan, they took him out.

 

[tay]

Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments


1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.

4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.

7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.

9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.


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The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments

 

[MapleDog]

7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.

The only thing he did wrong there was not telling the auto industry,to stop making cars that do not sell,or to make the damn cars energy efficient,more milage for less gas.

 

[Walter]

List of Obama’s Failures | Barack Obama Lies

 

[Icarus27k]

to make the damn cars energy efficient,more milage for less gas.

I think that's covered by the raising fuel economy standards promise kept that I mentioned.

I haven't check on that particular policy's application to the auto bailout, but Obama harps on fuel economy so much it wouldn't surprise me if he threw that in as part of the auto bailout.

List of Obama’s Failures | Barack Obama Lies

Matters of opinion, I suppose.

I consider passing on the Keystone pipeline to be a major Obama accomplishment.

 

[MapleDog]

I am not 10% sure,but didn't he said he would not tell the auto industry what to do,when he bailed them out?

 

[taxslave]

The only thing he did wrong there was not telling the auto industry,to stop making cars that do not sell,or to make the damn cars energy efficient,more milage for less gas.

What he did miss although it was probably not his fault is making sure that the execs that were responsible for the mess didn't get huge bonuses and golden parachutes.

 

[JLM]

List of Obama’s Failures | Barack Obama Lies

Hey Walter, did you miss that part in your education that taught us " a man who makes no mistakes generally doesn't make anything"? :lol:

 

[Kreskin]

Republicans will have no failed promises because they haven't said what any would be.

 

[tay]

I think that's covered by the raising fuel economy standards promise kept that I mentioned.

I haven't check on that particular policy's application to the auto bailout, but Obama harps on fuel economy so much it wouldn't surprise me if he threw that in as part of the auto bailout.



Matters of opinion, I suppose.

I consider passing on the Keystone pipeline to be a major Obama accomplishment.

Why do you consider passing the Keystone Pipeline a major accomplishment?



At the heart of their battle is whether the pipeline would pose a threat to the massive Ogallala Aquifer — one of the world’s largest underground sources of fresh water. By one calculation, it holds enough water to cover the country’s 48 contiguous states two feet deep. The Ogallala stretches beneath most of Nebraska from the Sand Hills in the west to the outskirts of Omaha. And it runs from South Dakota well past Lubbock, Tex.

Named after a Northern Plains tribe, the Ogallala provides water to farms in eight states, accounting for a quarter of the nation’s cropland, as well as municipal drinking wells. Though early white explorers who saw this apparently arid part of the Great Plains called it a “great American desert,” the aquifer has turned it into America’s breadbasket.

The spongelike aquifer formed more than 20 million years ago, when erosions of gravel and sand from the Rocky Mountains were washed downstream. It is replenished by rain and melting snow, but it gets just two to five inches of precipitation a year, according to a ­TransCanada filing to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Much of the water it holds was absorbed thousands or millions of years ago.

In some places the aquifer is buried 1,200 feet deep, but in many places it is at or very close to the surface, often less than five feet below ground. In these places, you can literally stick a stake in the ground and hit water. Extensive stretches of Nebraska’s plains require no irrigation; to keep cattle watered, ranchers just dig a hole and the water flows in.

That’s where concerns about the Keystone XL came in. Its original route traversed 92 miles of the Sand Hills and the Ogallala. TransCanada, which said it would bury the pipeline at least four feet underground, could in many places be putting it in water.


Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S. - The Washington Post

 

[MapleDog]

I am not 100% sure,but didn't he said he would not tell the auto industry what to do,when he bailed them out?

Dammit just noticed i made a mistake,one 0 did not appear.

 

[PoliticalNick]

The only thing he did wrong there was not telling the auto industry,to stop making cars that do not sell,or to make the damn cars energy efficient,more milage for less gas.

He didn't have to tell them really. GM discontinued the Hummer line for the public and dismantled it's Saturn division on their own. All the mass production companies are constantly fighting for the best fuel economy. This is a case where the marketplace has dictated the direction these companies must follow...no presidential intervention required.

I consider passing on the Keystone pipeline to be a major Obama accomplishment.

As a Canadian I should thank Obama for killing the Keystone. The pipeline from AB to BC now under debate is nothing but pure gold for Western Canada. There is a $20billion commitment from a private fund to build a refinery in Kitimat/Prince Rupert so we can sell Asia finished product for a better price (more profit). Even if we were to ship crude the Asian will pay a better price than the US. Now we have to get the morons that think this is bad out of the way. I don't care what the frikin environmentalists think, this will stabilize the economy of the 3 western provinces and generate many jobs and plenty of revenue for the govt especially if we build the refinery.

 

[Highball]

More too. 1. Keep his Communist party ties out of the picture. 2. Bury the nation in debt. 3. Begin a series of anachronistic declarations using Executive priviledge. 4. Surround the job with incompetents like Summers, Geithner, Napolitano and others.

 

[Mowich]

I think that's covered by the raising fuel economy standards promise kept that I mentioned.

I haven't check on that particular policy's application to the auto bailout, but Obama harps on fuel economy so much it wouldn't surprise me if he threw that in as part of the auto bailout.



Matters of opinion, I suppose.

I consider passing on the Keystone pipeline to be a major Obama accomplishment.

Passing on it for now maybe, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a change of policy should the President be given a second term.........just saying.

 

[Icarus27k]

Why do you consider passing the Keystone Pipeline a major accomplishment?

Because finally some U.S. leader put the environment over business.

That's exceedingly rare.

Dammit just noticed i made a mistake,one 0 did not appear.

And I said "passing on" the Keystone pipeline, meaning not approving it. That's a major accomplishment.

As a Canadian I should thank Obama for killing the Keystone. The pipeline from AB to BC now under debate is nothing but pure gold for Western Canada. There is a $20billion commitment from a private fund to build a refinery in Kitimat/Prince Rupert so we can sell Asia finished product for a better price (more profit). Even if we were to ship crude the Asian will pay a better price than the US. Now we have to get the morons that think this is bad out of the way. I don't care what the frikin environmentalists think, this will stabilize the economy of the 3 western provinces and generate many jobs and plenty of revenue for the govt especially if we build the refinery.

Then Bam!

oil spill.

 

[Mowich]

Because finally some U.S. leader put the environment over business.

That's exceedingly rare.

Maybe the environment played a role in the President's decision, but I have a sneaking suspicion that other factors also came into play.

 

[Icarus27k]

Maybe the environment played a role in the President's decision, but I have a sneaking suspicion that other factors also came into play.

Hmmm... I don't think there's anything sneaky about it. If the tree produces good fruit ... and all that.

 

[JLM]

He didn't have to tell them really. GM discontinued the Hummer line for the public and dismantled it's Saturn division on their own. All the mass production companies are constantly fighting for the best fuel economy. This is a case where the marketplace has dictated the direction these companies must follow...no presidential intervention required.

Not to mention the Oldsmobile and Pontiac!

 

[Mowich]

Hmmm... I don't think there's anything sneaky about it. If the tree produces good fruit ... and all that.

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I have the sneaking suspicions, Ic.....................there certainly wasn't anything sneaky about the decision, just the reasons behind it, IMHO.

 

[EagleSmack]

What he did miss although it was probably not his fault is making sure that the execs that were responsible for the mess didn't get huge bonuses and golden parachutes.

No, he said he'd stop that. He'd stop golden parachutes and massive bonuses with tax payer money. It continued unabated... and it still does.

What about GITMO? Has he gotten around to closing that yet? Where is the outrage? Should he be brought in front of the Hague? Do US Liberals like GITMO now?