Barack Obama Promise Tracking
I continue to marvel at both the media and pundits discussions regarding the Barack Obama Stimulus Package. They wonder how things like money for the Arts and money towards Pell Grants can have any immediate impact on the ailing economy. What are items like this doing in a stimulus package?
The truth and the facts are that they are not part of the stimulus package. They are part of Mr. Obama’s Promise Keeper Package.
My Barack Obama Promise Tracker file contains 895 campaign promises culled from all of Mr. Obama’s speeches and his Plan for America. This file is downloadable, shareable, contains links to original sources and has a keyword search function.
The current stimulus plan, spun to us as a plan only recently concocted to heal the ailing economy, is a actually a year old plan formerly titled Barack Obama’s Plan for America. This is easily seen in my Barack Obama Promise Tracker.
A full year before the current economic crisis, President Obama published his Plan for America during his campaign run. In this, was a wonderful, wide-eyed, list of spending promises meant to transform America. The economic stimulus plan is this year-old Plan for America, only now it is fully funded under the guise called a stimulus plan.
I hope, wish and beg that the real intent of the stimulus plan is brought to light. That is, this is not a stimulus plan, it is a promise keeper plan. Let’s call it what it really is, I say. No disguises, no spin, real transparency.
Todd
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January 25th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
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January 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I just read a terrific online article about Barack Obama at http://www.ebmpublishing.com. The article was wonderfully written and showed why America is willing to accept him. It’s an engaging, thought provoking article that gave me a new found level of respect for him.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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January 26th, 2009 at 1:00 am
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January 28th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Wow what a great job! Every talkshow host should have this. Tremendous investment and dedication!
January 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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January 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Todd,
I just caught the end of your call on Glenn Beck and was able to write down the website. I think that was a brilliant idea to keep track of the promises. I haven’t had a chance to read them yet, but will definately print it out and share. I heard Glenn invite you on the show…do it!
January 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Brilliant! Hats off to you Todd. I’m hanging on to this and will use it often.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Great List - I bet the new Messiah doesn’t live up to 92% of them..
But at the same time, you just set you self up for an IRS audit for the next 4 years (hopefully not the next 8…)
GREAT WORK TODD!!!
January 29th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Kevin,
Believe me, I thought about the audit thing. I warned my wife it would come. But Soldiers are dying for our country and freedom so the least I can do is man-up and take the rectal exam. No KY.
Todd
January 29th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I heard you on Glenn Beck also. Great Idea. Now to hold his feet to the fire (so to speek) and make him answer to those campaign promises. This should be done to anyone running for public office.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
I hope the Messiah breaks ALL of his promises. It’s the ones that he might keep that are scary.
Here are a few words to consider: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness . . . When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, IT IS THEIR DUTY, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Incendiary rhetoric, the words of a mad man, or the words that many still believe? There’s trouble brewing in paradise. Sure hope the liberals in this country understand these words and what they mean. We need liberty, not a bailout nation.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Carpe FD…
What a great comment. You have just provided me with inspiration for my next blog. Todd
February 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Very interesting article, as are some of your other posts. I have bookmarked your great site for future visits.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Me to like move of your thoughts
March 19th, 2009 at 12:05 am
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