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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Romney's speech was so boring compared to this
2 months ago 32
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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!
2 months ago 9
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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????
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He is dealing with and also being blamed for problems that weren't created by him. Blame Bush.
2 months ago 33
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nice video it was really time for a new generation where all nations could live TOgehther
2 months ago 3
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I care about how crappy people say Obama is, i don't want a democrat running our country!
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Obama sucks, all Republicrats suck.
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Obama Biden 2012 !
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Obama 2012! You are the best president of the USA! Greetings from Germany :)
2 months ago 5
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Why do you want to detain a U.S. citizen WITHOUT trial indefinitely?
2 months ago 21
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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.
Makosis 2 months ago 177
not trying to nitpick here but didn't we follow the iraq war schedule set down in the bush admin and leave when that schedule said we should and not anytime sooner? so by saying hes the pres who ended the war...hes just saying he was pres at the time the war was scheduled to end?
SuperAdamAnt89 2 months ago 89