A Video Compilation of Obama's Broken Promises

[Universal Mind]

Wow.

[Universal Mind]

Somebody gave this thread one star but didn't even comment? How cheap. The video does not make any iffy claims or speculate. It is a video of one promise after another coming straight out of Obama's mouth, and he broke all of them. Is there any disagreement on that?

[Original Poster]

Well to be fair, the video itself starts off with a massive lie, which is that it implies G.B. only broke one promise. Breaking promises is part of being a politician, you compare his broken promises next to Romney's unapologetic lying and he doesn't come off so bad. I'd rather he fail to meet up to a good pledge than make up a reality where that pledge isn't necessary.

[Universal Mind]

Well to be fair, the video itself starts off with a massive lie, which is that it implies G.B. only broke one promise. Breaking promises is part of being a politician, you compare his broken promises next to Romney's unapologetic lying and he doesn't come off so bad. I'd rather he fail to meet up to a good pledge than make up a reality where that pledge isn't necessary. The common attitude that it's okay for politicians to lie is what makes them feel so okay with blatantly lying where anybody can find out about it. Your point is a "lesser of two evils" point, and the "lesser of two evils" mentality is what keeps the Republocratic Party in power. Obama put on a total show as a campaigner, and he turned on that show and never felt a need to explain it. The public is way too accepting of political con artistry. It needs to be majorly condemned by the masses.

[Original Poster]

I didn't say that it's okay. I feel severely betrayed by Obama. But the documentary acts like if we held him to the same standard as G.B. he would not have been re-elected when in reality G.B. lost to Clinton because Clinton ran a more effective campaign. The spin comes off republican apologist. We can get on an Obama hating bandwagon all day but when the next republicratic election comes you'll see two liars enter the ring and one of them will have a better campaign than the other one.

[Universal Mind]

I agree that the two major parties both suck, but the video pretty much just shows Obama making a whole lot of promises that he ended up breaking. Also, the media holds Republicans to a much higher standard than Democrats because the people who work in the media are generally Democrats. Bush's "Read my lips... No new taxes!" line was all over the television throughout 1992. Which of Obama's broken promise comments have been all over television?