“I want you to hold our government accountable. I want you to hold me accountable.” — Barack Obama
“Okay, we will.” — PolitiFact
Tracking Obama’s promises
22 Promise Kept
7 Compromise
3 Promise Broken
4 Stalled
54 In the Works
424 No Action
PolitiFact will be tracking Barack Obama’s promises during his presidency and will be rating the progress of each one. >>more
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
PolitiFact’s Top 10 Promises on the Obameter
No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
Create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance or sell their homes. “The Fund will not help speculators, people who bought vacation homes or people who falsely represented their incomes.”>>More
No. 32: Create a tax credit of $500 for workers
Enact a Making Work Pay tax credit that would equal 6.2 percent of up to $8,100 of earnings (yielding a maximum credit of approximately $500). Indexed for inflation.>>More
No. 38: Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes
Repeal the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)>>More
No. 52: Create a National Health Insurance Exchange
Create a “National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans and businesses purchase private health insurance.”>>More
No. 126: Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
“Barack Obama will work with military commanders on the ground in Iraq and in consultation with the Iraqi government to end the war safely and responsibly within 16 months.”>>More
No. 177: Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
“As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo.”>>More
No. 422: Create new financial regulations
“I’ll put in place the common-sense regulations and rules of the road I’ve been calling for since March — rules that will keep our market free, fair, and honest; rules that will restore accountability and responsibility in our corporate boardrooms.”>>More
No. 439: Create 5 million “green” jobs
Will “create 5 million ‘green’ jobs; will invest $150 billion over ten years to deploy clean technologies, protect our existing manufacturing base and create millions of new jobs.”>>More
No. 441: Reduce oil consumption by 35 percent by 2030
Will “reduce oil consumption overall by at least 35 percent, or 10 million barrels of oil, by 2030.”>>More
No. 456: Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming
“Will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming – an 80% reduction by 2050. To ensure this isn’t just talk, I will also commit to interim targets toward this goal in 2020, 2030, and 2040. These reductions will start immediately, and we’ll continue to follow the recommendations of top scientists to ensure that our targets are strong enough to meet the challenge we face.”>>More
