![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last week, it released an “Obameter” report that rated more than two-thirds of his promises as “Promise Kept” or “Compromise,” a better average than voters cynical about campaign pledges had any reason to expect. PolitiFact, a nonpartisan, Pulitzer Prize-winning website, has kept track of the 508 promises Obama made when he was running for president in 2008. His partial successes - works in progress - offer the best clues to what he may yet achieve. So let’s look backward instead, to Obama’s record of success and failure. For everything else, the crystal ball for this year - not to mention the next four years - is cloudy. It’s safe to predict that we will continue arguing in 2013 over the debt ceiling, gun violence and immigration. “Sandy” referred to beaches or a legendary pitcher for the Dodgers, not a devastating hurricane or a shooting at an elementary school. Four years ago, as Barack Obama took the oath, no one had heard of the tea party, Obamacare, the Deepwater Horizon, Abbottabad, the Arab Spring, Sheldon Adelson or the 47 percent. This is bound to be an exercise in futility. New York: Presidential inaugurations are traditionally occasions for stroking one’s chin and offering sober assessments of what the president and the nation can accomplish in the next four years. ![]()
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