My Obama Prophecy

When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States for the first time amid a tsunami of pride, hope, possibility, love and yes-we-can-ism, I made a prediction about the new Man of Hope and what he was promising to the American people and offering to the international community -

"If he is still alive at the end of one month in office, then he is just another puppet of the power brokers and will deliver THEIR agenda - not HIS election manifesto"

Barack Obama's promises: Our Top 10

Article by Angie Drobnic Holan in Tampa Bay Times's Politifact.com 19 Jan 2009
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/jan/19/obama-promises-top-ten/

and update 2013:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/subjects/politifacts-top-promises/

Obama racks up list of broken promises 

(article by Chelsea Schilling in World Net Daily 3rd Dec 2009)

http://www.wnd.com/2009/03/91286/

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama’s campaign pact with the people contains IOUs that now come due

(Associated Press - Washington Post 11 Apr 2013)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/promises-promises-obamas-campaign-pact-with-the-people-contains-ious-that-now-come-due/2013/04/11/e6afb9a8-a27b-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html 

“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists

that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign...and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”

- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA, November 10, 2007

“...The answer to our fiscal problems is not to continue to short-change investments in education, energy, innovation and infrastructure investments that are vital to long-term growth.  Instead, we need to end the Iraq war, eliminate waste in existing government programs, generate revenue by charging polluters for the greenhouse gases they are sending into our atmosphere — and put an end to the reckless, special interest driven corporate loopholes and tax cuts for the wealthy that have been the centerpiece of the Bush Administration’s economic policy.”

– Barack Obama, Speech in Flint, MI, June 16, 2008