I don't think it is useful to pretend there is not a difference between demos and repubs. Those that follow the agenda of the r-wing in this country know the claim is not remotely true.
See 127 examples of specific promises Obama has kept here:
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Politifact has a long history of gaming its 'facts', and none more glaring than how it's gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promiseke
eping".
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 recognizin
g 37 broken promises.
As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMIS
E' 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 immediatel
y 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) months ago. Politifact has convenient
ly ignored this issue. (Today it's $102/barre
l.)
Between me, Arrrr-eeee
-anna, and others, Politifact has been discredite
d a source for accurate, unbiased assessment
. Politifact has gotten it wrong on Obama's promisekee
ping, on Halliburto
n, on war contractin
g, on NitaLowey, on the StupakAmen
dment, on the healthcare legislatio
n, and more:
PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter in Need of Tune-Up PolitiFact Embraces Equivocation, the Truth Gets Squeezed PolitiFact Is Wrong About Nita Lowey: Abortion Coverage Could Become Rare With Stupak AmendmentPolitiFact gets it wrong on Jones
http://southdekalb.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/ajc-politifact-gets-it-wrong-on-jones/You're hopelessly misinforme
d, and what's worse is that you don't care to learn the facts. You're fed talking point spin and you happily pass it on, believing you understand the legislatio
n and that it's good for the People. It's Republican legislatio
n, and it's tragic that you don't know this.
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