{"id":10533,"date":"2012-10-16T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:56:24","slug":"politico-looks-at-obamas-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/politico-looks-at-obamas-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Looks At Obama&#8217;s Broken Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOT3WCSJNf0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Romney needs to point out all the promises made and broken. More importantly when the Emperor tries to make excuses Romney MUST call him out that he had a super majority and could have gotten anything he wanted done!<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<strong>5 unmet promises of President Obama<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/82429.html\">by Josh Gerstein | Politico<\/a><br \/>\nPresident Barack Obama swept into office in 2009 with the strongest electoral mandate in a generation, majorities in both houses of Congress and promises of dramatic change in Washington.<br \/>\nBut that was no guarantee of success.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, many pledges from his campaign and early presidency remain unfulfilled \u00e2\u20ac\u201d some stalled, others seemingly put off indefinitely. A few, Obama just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother to mention anymore&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cutting the deficit in half<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama, Feb. 23, 2009<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Closing Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo will be closed no later than one year from now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama, Jan. 22, 2009<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Immigration reform<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama, May 28, 2008<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Reining in home foreclosures<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We will help between 7 [million] and 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 avoid foreclosure.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama, Feb. 18, 2009<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Israeli-Palestinian peace<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We should reach for what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best within ourselves. If we do, when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama, Sept. 23, 2010<\/em>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1012\/82429.html\">..full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney needs to point out all the promises made and broken. More importantly when the Emperor tries to make excuses Romney MUST call him out that he had a super majority and could have gotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[549,14],"tags":[20668,11943,2580,20670,20666,20669,350,12406,4622,10110,20672,3717,20667,2597,20665,20671,443],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}