{"id":504,"date":"2009-04-29T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T20:00:07","slug":"is-obama-keeping-his-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama Keeping His Promises?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after President Obama was elected I thought it would be cool to try to track his progress at keeping his campaign promises for The Magical Buffet website.  However, then I thought about the time and research that would require and went, never mind.  But then I received a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgamesinc.com\/product.php?productid=1068&#038;cat=0&#038;page=\"target=\"_blank\">\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s 500 Promises\u201d<\/a> from U.S. Games Systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obama_promise.bmp'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/obama_promise.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama_promise\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-505\" \/><\/a>This box is really neat.  It contains 510 cards that compile promises Obama made in interviews, debates, speeches, and on his website while campaigning to become President.  It gives the promise, such as Promise 37 \u201cExtend tax cuts for lower incomes\u201d and then provides a bit of explanation.  In this case, \u201cExtend the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the big whoop about that, you may be asking.  Well, if I\u2019m curious as to what is going on with this promise I can just go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PolitiFact.com\"target=\"_blank\">www.PolitiFact.com<\/a>, type Promise 37 into their search engine, and bam!  I can find out what\u2019s going on with it.  In this case, the Promise is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/promise\/37\/extend-the-bush-tax-cuts-for-lower-incomes\/\"target=\"_blank\">\u201cIn the Works\u201d<\/a>.  The website tells me where the Promise came from originally and provides updates as to what is going on with the Promise to justify its \u201cIn the Works\u201d rating.  How freakin\u2019 easy and sweet is that?<\/p>\n<p>Also, the information isn\u2019t from some hack at a computer, like yours truly, it\u2019s from PolitiFact, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the 2008 election.  A Pulitzer bitches!  (I apologize.  I just really wanted to say \u201cPulitzer bitches!\u201d, like I had a Pulitzer of my own.)  And it\u2019s because this great group won a Pulitzer that I will forgive them for having the horribly named, \u201cTruth-O-Meter\u201d, \u201cFlip-O-Meter\u201d, and, wait for it, \u201cObameter\u201d sections on their site.  Great sources of information, well presented, and easily read\u2026.but silly names.<\/p>\n<p>So, back to this box of awesome I received called \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s 500 Promises\u201d.  What can one do with a box like this?  I think any group of politically minded friends would have fun with this.  Each person draws a card.  Read the Promise to the group.  Everyone vote as to whether Obama has kept the promise, broke the promise, compromised, is it stalled, in the works, or has no action been taken.  Then go to the website and see who is right.  (Perhaps whoever is wrong has to drink.  I haven\u2019t quite fine tuned this into a proper drinking game yet.  You might just have to play for the entertainment and educational value alone.)<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps if, let\u2019s say you had an eclectic blog and wanted to occasionally mention to readers various promises that the President has made and let everyone know what is going on with them, you could probably use it for that too.<\/p>\n<p>Promise 122: Expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence or sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>And how is that coming Mr. President?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/promise\/122\/expand-the-family-medical-leave-act-to-include-lea\/\"target=\"_blank\">No action?<\/a>  Get on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 100 days since Senator Obama became President Obama.  Did you know that Obama made over 500 documented promises during his campaign to become President?  Would you like a way to find out if he&#8217;s keeping those promises?  Then click on in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,24,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}