'Red line' just one of roughly 500 Obama promises that have come and gone
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FILE: Aug. 9, 2013: President Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington.AP
President Obama vowing that Syria would “cross a red line” by using chemical weapons is far from the only marker he’s laid down or promise he’s tried to keep since running for president in 2008.
The president has made more than 500 related-campaign promises alone. And just last week he re-drew a line in the sand for congressional Republicans trying to shutdown the government over his Affordable Care Act and looking for spending cuts as part of a separate deal to increase the federal debt limit.
“That’s not happening,” Obama said. “I will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States.”
The president has had mix success in keeping that vow over the past few years.
He managed in January to get the debt ceiling raised without yielding to Republicans’ demand for accompanying spending cuts.
However, in 2011 he failed to reach a “grand bargain” with House Republicans over the debt ceiling, forcing both sides to eventually accept a series of drastic spending cuts known as sequester.
“The sequester is not something that I've proposed,” Obama announced in his final 2012 presidential debate. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”
PolitiFact -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning project of the Tampa Bay Times that has essentially tracked all of the president’s major promises -- ruled Obama’s argument “mostly false.”
“It was Obama’s negotiating team that came up with the idea,” wrote PolitiFact.
The project finds that Obama has kept 241, or 45 percent, of his roughly 500 campaign promises, while breaking 118, or 22 percent, and compromising on roughly 25 percent. The remaining 8 percent are essentially still to be determined.
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