2008 Iowa Caucus Victory Speech: Promises Kept

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Four years ago today, then Senator Barack Obama addressed a packed hall of energized supporters after the Iowa Caucuses victory. He spoke of the following:

"I'll be a President who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American... I'll be a President who ends tax breaks for companies who ship our jobs overseas and put a middle class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans who deserve...I'll be a President who harnesses ingenuity farmers, scientists, and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all... and I'll be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home."

Four years later, here's what we've accomplished:

- Passed the Affordable Care Act to make health care more affordable for more than 30 million Americans.

- Cut taxes for 95% of working families and closed corporate tax loopholes that - were sending profits overseas.

- Put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

- Ended the war in Iraq.

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[Makosis]

Didn't close Guantanamo, instead you've authorized any future administration to detain American citizens indefinitely without a trial.

You never tried for a public option, instead forced us all to increase the profits of the broken health insurance industry.

Financial reform in name only, the banks are on their way to another crash because the OTC derivatives market is still unregulated. Not a single banker has been charged with fraud despite mountains of evidence.

We got DADT. One promise kept.

[TheBrandond20]

Romney's speech was so boring compared to this

[Newton Isaac]

How do you give a tax cut to 95% of all working families, when the bottom 46% don't pay taxes? That little thing you get in the mail called a tax return is not a tax cut. Also the earned income tax credit for having children actually gives the bottom 50% more money than they put in. Does a tax cut work when you devalued the dollar, by borrowing billions and raising the price of everything through inflation? Folowed the exact troop withdrawal schedule from Bush!

[danimayb]

we have the right to vote. so that makes us a free country? we have no choice but to vote for certain people who are capable of doing the job. And do you think these people really give a damn about the everyday Americans? No, They want the top job in politics! So they will fight for our votes and play the game. Once the winner has triumphed, they just get down to the work they need to do.. surrounded by the experts guiding them.. and nothing changes.

Remind me why obama got nobel peace prize????

[Peter Kolodje]

nice video it was really time for a new generation where all nations could live TOgehther

[darthtater91]

I care about how crappy people say Obama is, i don't want a democrat running our country!

[jkm hoffman]

Obama Biden 2012 !

[PChelptutorial]

Obama 2012! You are the best president of the USA! Greetings from Germany :)

[ji94552]

Why do you want to detain a U.S. citizen WITHOUT trial indefinitely?

[kemicon]

wait I seem to remember a bill that hobbled the EPA, a bill that would let the military imprison american citizens, and a bill that would keep Gitmo open indefinitely, and an extension of the war in Afghanistan. weird, i must have been living in bizarro world.

[ChowieBear]

In my humble opinion, Obama is the best President in this world!!!