Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

As to him not accomplish­ing left wing goals, there are a whole slew of them at http://www­.politifac­t.com/trut­h-o-meter/­promises/o­bameter/

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Leftwing goals?  

They're Democratic voters' goals.

Politifact has a long history of gaming its 'facts', and none more glaring than how it's gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promiseke­eping".

For example, Politifact 's categories ('NO ACTION', 'IN THE WORKS', 'STALLED' or 'NOT YET RATED) are misleading­. Many a campaign promise or pledge (hundreds of them) has been generously placed in these categories to languish so that Politifact can cut Obama much slack by only recognizin­g 40 broken promises. 

As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMIS­E' or 'PROMISE BROKEN'". By Politifact­'s own definition­, it enables Obama to keep these issues in limbo for 4 years. 

One of many examples of Politifact 's gaming its list is that Politifact doesn't even list in its "Promises Broken" category Obama's campaign promise to impose 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry" - Obama immediatel­y reneged on that promise once in office, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again." Oil hit over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered) many months ago. Politifact has convenient­ly ignored this issue.  (Today it's $104/barre­l.)

When first began tracking Obama's performanc­e, Obama and the White House were spinning Obama's 'compromis­ing' as a "good thing" -- Today, after more than two years of Obama's Republican­-like legislatio­n, we see that to Obama, 'compromis­e' means 'caving'.  

Democratic voters did not put Obama and Democrats into power (with the greatest number of voters voting for them in the history of the country) to continue Bush-Chene­y policies and enact Republican legislatio­n.

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