SonofThunder peace
12/20/16 9:34 am
Haha nah. But I wonder which presidents will be able to in this increasingly polarized political system?
Let's see if trump can. Who knows?
Soxfan824 Jesus was a liberal
12/19/16 4:34 pm
He would have kept many more if he had a cooperative congress instead of a legislature intent on preventing him from accomplishing anything. Which led us to where we are today. People so desperate for someone outside the political sphere that they were willing to elect a candidate who is patently unqualified for the job.
throwback Dixie
12/18/16 9:28 am
None of them keep their promises... Ever! Each one is worse. Why do you all still believe them and passionately vote for them every four years.
We have to let them know we will hold them accountable and not accept this.
iosuserinwv West Virginia
12/18/16 8:45 am
He did promise to bankrupt the coal industry and have our power bills skyrocket. That campaign promise was kept and destroyed our state and great paying jobs! Oh well, I guess we can now get one of these great minimum wage jobs that they have created.
otto Olean, NY
12/17/16 1:08 pm
Far too many of them, unfortunately. He certainly "fundamentally transformed" the nation into a bunch of people constantly at each others' throats while diluting our impact on the world. He transformed us from America into another run-of-the-mill nation.
Forgetabouit
12/17/16 7:56 am
He was a weak president and he allowed blacks to think they were a less class and not worthy ... they are worthy they are American like the rest of us stop listening to CNN they live division
jstahl Build that wall
12/17/16 6:37 am
He kept enough to hurt us, but not enough to destroy us. Does it count as keeping a campaign promise if he passed Obamacare, but in doing so broke the promises that we could keep our doctors, our premiums would go down, and that it wouldn't add one dime to the deficit? Seems like a net loss in promises to me.
WallyBarbuckle
12/16/16 9:19 pm
Fuck no! He continued every single Bush policy he promised to stop, which is what made me ditch liberals for good and made me realize I'm mostly libertarian.
tractorman Oklahoma
12/16/16 9:14 pm
I believe he tried but was met with republicans who unilaterally opposed anything he wanted to do to help American citizens, even some policies that they wrote and promoted before he took them up! Their opposition to ANY proposal he had bordered on treason! Now they got Trump...ha-ha-ha- what they deserve...
Zod Above Pugetropolis
12/16/16 7:10 pm
Weren't closing Gitmo and getting out of Afghanistan on that list? Just an observation, not a complaint. Fixing the ridiculous Cuba thing that was screwed up for most of my life, and the marriage thing that had been screwed up forever, weren't on the list, but make up a little for the things that were but didn't get done.
FloridaPopulist Nationalist Right
12/16/16 6:32 pm
Change my ass, he turned out to be one of the biggest corporate establishment sellout demagogue presidents in all of American history. And i'm using the word demagogue because he promised change to get elected and didn't deliver and instead kept the neo-liberal status quo. Although i'm not sure i would have wanted that change.... That leftists is what a demagogue is
Isomax TIC TOC
12/16/16 5:37 pm
If he promised to get finger paint on the walls and leave his Legos in all the places people walk and train all the neighborhood dogs how to chase a lil white dimpled ball then sure, job well done. Now go home.
phalnx Ohio
12/16/16 5:19 pm
Yeah, he pretty much did. He reformed health care...though not nearly to the extent he wanted to..., he turned our economy around and hit his targets for unemployment and deficit reduction, he restored good relations with Europe,...
TiredofIt Texas
12/16/16 4:52 pm
Unfortunately, yes. Hopefully we can turn that around now. The only thing he didn't do was make race relations better. Pretty much made them 1000 times worse.
valeriejo ramble on
12/16/16 4:51 pm
Its pretty much impossible to keep all campaign promises. Trump has already gone back on what, half of his? thank god) But whatever you think of Obama and his politics, I think most would agree that his heart is in the right place and we are def better off now than we were when he first took office.
jkennison67 Dayton, Ohio
12/16/16 4:38 pm
The country is better off than it was in '08, unless you live in an alternate reality that's just a fact. However, I don't think that's delivering on the campaign promises, I voted for him, he was stalwarted by republicans half the time and the other half of the time he had to do what Bush did (which I hate) and create all these executive orders. I don't like that balance of power, just my opinion. Did not keep his campaign promises if you ask me.
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