Obama has not fullfilled his campaign promises well

Thanks for the topic! PolitiFact tracks campaign promises and how many are kept: Obama has KEPT 141 promises, COMPROMISED on 41, BROKEN 42, 212 are IN THE WORKS, and 70 have STALLED. http://www.politifact.com... Due to my opponent severely limiting character space, I can't go into each promise in detail, but when you have a Republican House, you need to compromise, so we should count those promises as kept. Meaning that Obama has upheld 182 of his promises and only broken 42 of them. Of those that are in limbo, he is actively working on 300% more of his promises than those promises which he has put on the backburner. Overall, his record is incredible. Let's look to a few key big promises he kept: 1. Refocus on the War in Afghanistan (the real war) and get us out of Iraq. Obama sent 30,000 addition troops to Afghanistan while removing all combat forces from Iraq and the non-combat troops will leave by the end of the year. He put a plan in place to kill bin Laden and has used drones to kill 2/3 of al Qaeda's senior leadership. 2. Health care for all Americans The only possible bill that would have passed the heavily pro-business Senate was the current incarnation, which is still universal health care and worked quite well in Massachusetts. The bill gives tax breaks to the poor, helps them purchase insurance at cheaper prices by setting up insurance pools, and gives parity to mental illnesses, which is a huge deal for many people. http://tinyurl.com... In policy debate, I ran a case about how parents had to give up their children with severe mental illnesses to get them treatment, since insurance companies used to cap treatment at $50,000 per year. The new legislation also bans excluding people based on pre-existing conditions, a terrible practice that Michael Moore highlighted in his movie Sicko. 3. Non-proliferation New START Treaty with Russia. http://tinyurl.com... 4. Gay rights Don't Ask Don't Tell is repealed. http://tinyurl.com... 5. Bush tax cuts Obama only extended these for two years because Republicans were holding the budget hostage. A government shutdown would have been worse for the country, seeing how bad the political situation has affected the economy through the S&P downgrade. However, Obama pledged he won't extend them again and put huge military cuts into the debt ceiling bill to force Republicans to give key concessions on tax cuts for the wealthy, or else huge defense cuts kick in. http://tinyurl.com... 6. Immigration The last time a Dem pushed immigration reform (Harry Reid did prior to the 2010 election), this caused Obama's comprehensive climate change bill to fall apart, because Lindsey Graham, their Republican compatriot, got too much flak for working with Dems when Dems were pushing immigration. Obama has, however, issued an executive order "paving the way for the Dream Act," telling INS officials to use their discretion on deportation and to let many people stay. http://www.politicususa.com... 7. Wisconsin There was nothing Obama could do about this, since it's a state's issue, and it was ultimately for the Wisconsin Supreme Cour to decide (they ruled against it). But he did come out publicly against what the Republican governors were doing as far as collective bargaining. http://www.politico.com... 8. Other big promises he's kept From PolitiFacts: expanding access to student loans, establishing consumer protections and a credit card bill of rights, extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes, fully fund the Veteran's Administration, fully fund the Violence Against Women Act to prevent domestic violence, condition aid to Pakistan on them cooperating on fighting terror (forced them to invade Waziristan, where the Taliban were hiding), increase funding for local emergency funding (FEMA and Katrina was pretty bad), fund cyber-crime prevention programs, fund rapid reaction forces for emerging democracies, release Presidential records in a timely fashion, require a freezing off period for Executive staff trying to take lobbying jobs, encourage water conservation in the West. And that's only partway through page 3 of 8. Obama can't beat Congress if Congress won't cooperate. You can make promises but you also have to play with the hand you're dealt, and Obama has done the best job possible given the circumstances with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stating his primary goal is to make Obama lose in 2012 and with the tea party calling for his supposedly non-American head on a platter.