Said: Promised to create five million new energy jobs alone
Did: since the president was sworn in, America has suffered a net decline of roughly half a million jobs. (Even owebama's nonsense claim of 4.4 million jobs created does not come close to what was promised).
Said: Claimed that by the end of his first term his health care plan would “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family
Did: According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average annual premium for family health coverage through an employer reached $15,073 in 2011—an increase of 9 percent, or $1,303, over the previous year. The 9 percent increase in family premiums between 2010 and 2011 followed an increase of 3 percent between 2009 and 2010.
Said: Guaranteed that his financial rescue plan would help “stop foreclosures”
Did: Under Obama, the number of foreclosures was the worst in history. In addition, last year was the worst sales year on record for housing, while home values are nearly 35 percent lower than they were five years ago.
Said: Unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if the stimulus plan was passed
Did: The unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 41 consecutive months.
Said: In the first year of his presidency, to “cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office”
Did: The deficit was around $1.3 trillion the day Obama took office in the midst of the financial crisis; according to the Congressional Budget Office, in the current 2012 budget year, the deficit will be around $1.25 trillion.
Said: “Lift two million Americans from poverty”
Did: A record 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
What this means, then, is that Barack Obama’s only excuse for his failures is a myth and a mirage—a manufactured, after-the-fact effort to escape accountability for his own words, his own commitments, and his own failings.
The “We Couldn’t Possibly Have Known How Bad It Was” narrative is an understandable one for Obama to resort to. But like so much of what the president says these days, it’s simply make-believe. The president has run out of excuses, which explains why for many Americans he’s just about run out of time.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/promises-promises_648225.html
Did: since the president was sworn in, America has suffered a net decline of roughly half a million jobs. (Even owebama's nonsense claim of 4.4 million jobs created does not come close to what was promised).
Said: Claimed that by the end of his first term his health care plan would “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family
Did: According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average annual premium for family health coverage through an employer reached $15,073 in 2011—an increase of 9 percent, or $1,303, over the previous year. The 9 percent increase in family premiums between 2010 and 2011 followed an increase of 3 percent between 2009 and 2010.
Said: Guaranteed that his financial rescue plan would help “stop foreclosures”
Did: Under Obama, the number of foreclosures was the worst in history. In addition, last year was the worst sales year on record for housing, while home values are nearly 35 percent lower than they were five years ago.
Said: Unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if the stimulus plan was passed
Did: The unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 41 consecutive months.
Said: In the first year of his presidency, to “cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office”
Did: The deficit was around $1.3 trillion the day Obama took office in the midst of the financial crisis; according to the Congressional Budget Office, in the current 2012 budget year, the deficit will be around $1.25 trillion.
Said: “Lift two million Americans from poverty”
Did: A record 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
What this means, then, is that Barack Obama’s only excuse for his failures is a myth and a mirage—a manufactured, after-the-fact effort to escape accountability for his own words, his own commitments, and his own failings.
The “We Couldn’t Possibly Have Known How Bad It Was” narrative is an understandable one for Obama to resort to. But like so much of what the president says these days, it’s simply make-believe. The president has run out of excuses, which explains why for many Americans he’s just about run out of time.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/promises-promises_648225.html
