Obama Coming Up Short on Human Rights

While I hate to confuse you with, y'know, facts, Jayster, Politifact.com has been tracking President Obama's promises and he has a remarkable record already of promises kept or in the works: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

@rocky he has kept only 9% of his problems. If we go by your math he has kept or is in the works only 33%, roughly. Which leaves the other 66% where he hasn't done anything or broken the promise. So those are the facts, now if you consider keeping your word and 1/3 of the time a remarkable record that is your opinion but as you say the facts speak otherwise.

Obama's only been in office for about 9 months, godawgs. If he's already fulfilled or is in the process of fulfilling 1/3 of his promises just 1/5 of the way through his term, I'd say he's ahead of schedule, especially considering he is the president, not a dictator, and has to work with Congress, other countries, etc. who don't always share his views. Of course, logic and facts don't seem to be major contributors to your way of thinking.

@ultra marine Now the left cant have this type of stuff both ways. You want to give him all the credit in the world for what he is doing but none of the blame for what he is not doing, and he has been in office for 10 months not 9.

Yeah, isn't it amazing how we're sending more troops, when we were told that he was going to get us out? Isn't it amazing how he decried the spending of Bush but has posted a record deficit so that the banksters could roll in the dough again? When are the libs going to wake up and realize that we've been had (again)?

Jayster do you know what C + I + G + (X - M) stands for in economics? That's the equation used to measure the GDP of a country. C is Consumption or how much money the private sector spends on durable goods, non-durable goods, and services. I is investment and it means exactly that. X is exports, M is imports. G is government spending. By and large C is the largest variable, but it doesn't have on single masthead by which it is measured or accumulated for that matter. Investment and (X-M) have the same problem, there is no way to guide the entirety of the public market in one direction with any real accuracy. G on the other hand can be directly calibrated. So to keep GDP up in a recession when all other variables fall, you increase the one variable you can control, G. Now, if you control it every cycle it ultimately crowds out the other variables and no one wants that, but in a recession unless you want dramatic contraction on the part of the economy, you keep GDP up. There is nothing wrong with a large deficit in times of recession. If Obama is still having a huge deficit in his 4th year, THEN you criticize him for it. Otherwise he's keeping this country "rich" for lack of a better word. Now, on the campaign trail he clearly stated SEVERAL times he'd keep the war in Afghanistan going. He only said we'd pull out of Iraq, and we are, but you don't stop a military operation over night, over month, or even really in a year. Yes, large banks are pulling a profit again, but that's not a bad thing. The bad is their bonuses, not their profits. One helps the publics coffers in loans and general capital, the other only helps certain private individuals. I suggest you study Economics a bit more.