$tevie wrote:
Anyone who is so stupid that they've never heard the expression "living well is the best revenge", raise your hand. Our resident moron went first, of course.

$tevie wrote:
Anyone who is so stupid that they've never heard the expression "living well is the best revenge", raise your hand. Our resident moron went first, of course.

Keef wrote:
PROMISE: Promises to veto the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) should it come across his desk.

REALITY: Obama instead signs the NDAA into law, giving himself the right to kill any American citizen without a trial, or even without any charges been made in a court of law.

Obama established one of the most reckless precedents imaginable: that any president can secretly order and oversee the extrajudicial killing of American citizens. Obama's kill list transgresses against the Constitution as egregiously as anything George W. Bush ever did. It is as radical an invocation of executive power as anything Dick Cheney championed. The fact that the Democrats rebelled against those men before enthusiastically supporting Obama is hackery every bit as blatant and shameful as anything any talk radio host has done. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/why-i-refuse-to-vote-for-barack-obama/262861/

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PROMISE: "I firmly believe that Justice Louis Brandeis once said, that sunlight is the best disinfectant," Obama said, "and I know that restoring transparency is not only the surest way to achieve results, but also to earn back the trust in government without which we cannot deliver changes the American people sent us here to make." Obama ordered all federal agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor" of FOIA requests and so laid the groundwork to eventually release reams of previously withheld government information on the Internet.

REALITY: The Obama administration has rejected FOIA requests from The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union seeking information about its "targeted killing" program against suspected terrorists, saying the release of the requested documents would harm national security. In response to the government filing, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said Thursday: "The notion that the CIA's targeted killing program is still a secret is beyond absurd. Senior officials have discussed it, both on the record and off."

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PROMISE: "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on medical marijuana."

REALITY: Since then, the administration has unleashed an interagency cannabis crackdown that goes beyond anything seen under the Bush administration, with more than 100 raids, primarily on California pot dispensaries. Since October 2009, the Justice Department has conducted more than 170 aggressive SWAT-style raids in 9 medical marijuana states, resulting in at least 61 federal indictments, according to data compiled by Americans for Safe Access, an advocacy group.

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PROMISE: "Such (whistleblowing) acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled."

REALITY: Over the past three and a half years the Obama White House has instead shown a ferocious hostility to many whistleblowers and earned itself the ire of whistleblower defence groups like the Project on Government Oversight and the Government Accountability Project. Danielle Brian, of the PGO, has said the US department of justice in the Obama administration "sent a clear of message of fear and intimidation" to whistleblowers in the national security field. This is how the GAP's Jesselyn Raddack – herself a former whistleblower at the DoJ – put it: "While the Bush administration treated whistleblowers unmercifully, the Obama administration has been far worse. It is actually prosecuting them," she wrote recently.

Thomas Drake, who worked at the National Security Agency, was threatened with life imprisonment for leaking to the Baltimore Sun unclassified details of a wasteful programme that also impinged on privacy. Mr Obama has indicted six whistleblowers, including Mr Drake, under the Espionage Act, twice as many as all prior administrations combined, for leaking information not to a “foreign nation” but to the press.

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PROMISE: Vows to "allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S."

REALITY: In the wake of negotiations with the prescription drug industry, Obama's drug importation promise is officially off the table.

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PROMISE: "I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. That principle of habeas corpus, that a state can't just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process -- that’s the essence of who we are. I mean, you remember during the Nuremberg trials, part of what made us different was even after these Nazis had performed atrocities that no one had ever seen before, we still gave them a day in court and that taught the entire world about who we are but also the basic principles of rule of law".

REALITY: The president's executive order will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and all but cements Guantanamo Bay's continuing role in U.S. counterterrorism policy.

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PROMISE: "If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States! Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner!"

REALITY: President Obama declined union invitations to go to Wisconsin, where thousands of protesters mobilized against the anti-union measure.

Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker’s move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Request rebuffed, they asked for Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. So far, however, the White House has stayed away from any trips to Madison, the state capital, or other states in the throes of union battles.”

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, called Obama ‘largely a bystander’ in the debate over collective bargaining. ‘I think we’re feeling a sense of betrayal from him and not liking it much,’ she said.”

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Should I keep going? I can, you know.

By the way, none of the usual blaming of congress for any of these broken promises! Congress had no control over any of them. They were Obama's choice.

I dunno. If I buy a boxed TV from the back of a truck only to get home and find the box filled with bricks... I generally don't go back for seconds. Maybe I'm weird that way.