Will Obama keep his promises? Track 500 Obama promises.

4 days....he just got moved in...5 is pretty good...

quantity is not equal to quality, thus a promise to a man's children to get a dog should not be measured against a promise to reduce national unemployment.

Dude, you are so right. 4 days and millions of unborn children, what could be better?

those millions of unborn children can be made into millions of stem cells

do you really think that abortion clinics save all of those children for stem cell?
You might want to look into exactly how they handle them after the procedure.

Well, there's the first promise broken....

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/234/allow-five-days-of-public-comment-before-signing-b/

And they really should move Promise 240 about Lobbyists in Obama's administration to "Broken" as well. They've already moved it from "Kept" to "Compromised" and I'm urging them to move to "broken" based on facts below:

Below is the current list (first two are takes from the original promise downgrading at the site):

William J. Lynn III, the appointee to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. Lynn was formerly a lobbyist for the giant defense contractor Raytheon.

William Corr, was tapped to be deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services. He previously lobbied for the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.



Source for four below is: http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/12/07/IMPACT_Donors_lobbyists_help_Obama_4171.html

Maria Echaveste, An Obama adviser on immigration issues, lobbied for the United Farm Workers this year to protect immigrant agricultural workers as the Bush administration sought to ease hiring of seasonal farm labor and Congress debated an immigration overhaul.

Bart Chilton, Obama's agricultural policy review, lobbied until last year as vice president of the National Farmers Union.

Keith Harper, working Indian issues for Obama, has worked as a lawyer for Native American tribes, and wrote in a 2006 article that the Interior Department's handling of Indian trust matters has been a "national disgrace." Obama initially assigned Harper to be his lead adviser on the department, but now Harper is advising the campaign more narrowly on Indian gaming. Harper was registered to lobby on sovereignty issues for a tribe as recently as this year but did not personally lobby, transition aides and a tribe official said.

Mark Gitenstein, A transition advisory board member (and leading contender for Office of Legal Policy, DoJ) was registered until August to lobby on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AT&T Inc. and financial firms such as Ernst & Young LLP and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.



Source for item below is: www.lngpollutes.org/downloads/24-nov-08_RACE%20letter%20to%20Obama%20transition%20FINAL.pdf

David J. Hayes (Deputy Secretary of the Interior) and Robert Sussman (Secretary to the EPA) are lawyers in the firm Latham & Watkins which has been outside counsel to Sempra Energy for many years. Latham & Watkins partner David Hayes was a lobbyist for Sempra Energy in 2006. Former Latham & Watkins partner (as of 2007) Robert Sussman was one of a handful of Latham & Watkins partners in the environment practice area in the Latham & Watkins Washington DC office, working under David Hayes, during his long tenure at the firm.

Mr. Hayes tenure as deputy secretary at Interior during the Clinton Administration is laudable. However, that was a long time ago. A Latham & Watkins attorney that was a Sempra lobbyist should not be serving in any official capacity with the Obama-Biden transition team, much less as the overall EPA, DOE, Interior, Agriculture Agency Review Team Lead. Mr. Hayes’ role as a Latham & Watkins attorney advocating for Sempra Energy makes him unsuitable for the function he has been assigned on the transition team.

Mr. Sussman is equally unsuitable for his role on the transition team for similar reasons. Mr. Sussman’s tenure as assistant administrator at EPA during the Clinton Administration is to be commended. However, his long tenure as a partner at Latham & Watkins following his time in the Clinton Administration, a period when the Bush Administration was dismantling environmental and energy facility siting protections while Latham & Watkins aggressively advocated for such changes on behalf of clients like Sempra, makes him an inappropriate choice to have a substantive hand in the selection of appointees to the EPA in the Obama Administration.

We do not feel that either Mr. Hayes or Mr. Sussman can be honest brokers in the selection of Obama Administration political appointees. We respectfully request that these gentlemen be replaced as Obama-Biden Transition Team leads. High level political appointees to EPA, Interior, DOE, and Agriculture will naturally feel beholden to a degree to Mr. Hayes if he has a key role in advancing their appointments. High level political appointees to EPA will feel beholden to Mr. Sussman. This is not a time to have advocates of the status quo, at best, directing the evaluation and selection of candidates for key agency positions.


Lanny Breuer " Assistant AG for DoJ’s Criminal Division; Also lobbyist for Yahoo! Last few years. Remember the recent Yahoo-Google antitrust case of last year?

There are at least 3 other recent Lobbyists being considered strongly, but not yet nominated...or otherwise earning money from the Obama administration.

Well, Politifact reports another Obama campaign promise broken....this one on lobbyists and special interests working in the White House.

this makes 3 broken, 3 stalled, 6 compromised, and 19 kept...not too bad, but this one just ruled broken was one of Obama's hallmarks on the campaign trail and thus is sure to sting...and be fodder for justified repub attacks.

I understand we're not supposed to need to bookmark or bump anymore, but this one could use a bump.

Yup, y're right. Thnx, Bill.

slkshock--A great job--would you care to update your post or might that take too much time?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

an update

If "that" log is accurate, I must commend Obama for keeping "most" of his promises.

What I see wanting are why he implemented a universal health care system without implementing cost savings processes and regulations, and why he bailed out wall street, and forgot main street.

Wouldent those questions be better asked of the so called liberal democratic congress which is business orentated. Both the congress and the president protect big business more than the average citizen. Add the supreme court which declared that political contributions are the same as free speech and the common man has no party to which it can turn. I would rather vote communist then republican!

How we elect our government reps and how they act while in the service of our country seems to be at odds; many become different people than the one they represent themselves during campaigns.

It also seems to me that the quality of people running for public office has declined to the level of mediocre - even when we think they have some intelligence.

I'm not sure where the answer lies, but we are doomed to fail when our country ignores the growing federal deficit, and government doesn't do much to help main street.

Our government claims that the unemployment rate is now 9.5%, but I have a hard time believing it; not only do we see more empty stores and more government layoffs, but even most big companies who claimed they will begin to hire during the summer months never happened.

It's one thing to be optimistic about our economy, but all the signs I see are mostly negative.

Our governments claim that tax revenue will begin to increase in 2012, but that's only wishful thinking on their part; they want to spend money today to pay it off in 2012 with tax income that will not be there.