Claim: President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is circulating a video of promises the then-candidate made during an Iowa caucus victory speech in January 2008, claiming he kept the promises he made that night. Not quite. To be sure, the president signed a major health care law, ended the long war in Iraq and signed multiple "middle-class" tax cuts, just as his campaign boasts. But the health care law isn't expected to make insurance "affordable and available to every single American,"
Fact-check: Promises, Promises - FactCheck.org
Verdict: president barack obama's reelection campaign is circulating a video of promises the then-candidate made during an iowa caucus victory speech in january 2008, claiming he kept the promises he made that night. not quite. to be sure, the president signed a major health care law, ended the long war in iraq and signed multiple "middle-class" tax cuts, just as his campaign boasts. but the health care law isn't expected to make insurance "affordable and available to every single american,"
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: D'Angelo Gore
Date published: 2012-01-04T22:18:33