• The Advocates
     He wasn't lying about the fact that the Bush politics of guns and butter bankrupted the country. He wasn't lying about the fact that our health care system was moribund and that 1000 people per day were dropping out of company sponsored health cares. He wasn't lying about the fact that Wall Street greed authored the housing bubble.  He wasn't lying about the fact that we need more oversight with regards to Wall Street. he wasn't lying over the fact that the 1% are under taxed.
    By the clod here are some other promises:
    Extend
    child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
    Create
    an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing
    processes
    Increase minority access to capital
    Require economic justification for
    tax changes
    Implement "Women Owned
    Business" contracting program
    Change standards for determining
    broadband access
    Create a consumer-friendly credit
    card rating system
    Establish a credit card bill of
    rights
    Expand loan programs for small
    businesses
    Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower
    incomes
    Extend and index the 2007
    Alternative Minimum Tax patch
    Close the "doughnut
    hole" in Medicare prescription drug plan
    Expand the Senior Corps volunteer
    program
    Require insurance companies to
    cover pre-existing conditions
    Give tax credits to those who need
    help to pay health premiums
    Require large employers to
    contribute to a national health plan
    Require children to have health
    insurance coverage
    Expand eligibility for Medicaid
    Expand eligibility for State
    Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
    Require health plans to disclose
    how much of the premium goes to patient care
    Establish an independent health institute to provide
    accurate and objective information
    In non-competitive markets, force
    insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
    Eliminate the higher subsidies to
    Medicare Advantage plans
    Expand funding to train primary
    care providers and public health practitioners
    Increase funding to expand
    community based prevention programs
    Reinstate executive order to hire
    an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
    Create a best practices list for
    private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities
    Launch educational initiative for
    employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities
    Increase the Veterans
    Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
    Fully fund the Veterans
    Administration
    Assure that the Veterans
    Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation
    Expand the Veterans
    Administration's number of "centers of excellence" in specialty care
    Expand housing vouchers program for homeless veterans
    Appoint a special adviser to the
    president on violence against women
    Fully fund the Violence Against
    Women Act
    Direct military leaders to end war
    in Iraq
    Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
    No permanent bases in Iraq
    Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
    Increase the size of the Army and Marine
    Corps
    Increase special operations forces and civil affairs
    Create a military families
    advisory board
    End the "Stop-loss"
    program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments
    Strengthen and expand military
    exchange programs with other countries
    Make greater investment in
    advanced military air technology
    End the abuse of supplemental
    budgets for war
    Make U.S.
    military aid to Pakistan
    conditional on anti-terror efforts
    Open "America Houses" in
    Islamic cities around the globe
    Give a speech at a major Islamic
    forum in the first 100 days of his administration
    End the use of torture
    Allocate Homeland Security funding
    according to risk
    Create a real National
    Infrastructure Protection Plan
    Increase funding for local
    emergency planning
    Seek verifiable reductions in
    nuclear stockpiles
    Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I
    Treaty
    Stand down nuclear forces to be
    reduced under the Moscow Treaty
    Organize successful
    Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010
    Appoint a White House Coordinator
    for Nuclear Security
    Expand federal bioforensics
    program for tracking biological weapons
    Initiate a grant and training
    program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime
    Improve
    relations with Turkey,
    and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
    Launch an international Add Value
    to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
    Create a rapid response fund for
    emerging democracies
    Grant Americans unrestricted
    rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
    Restore funding for the Byrne
    Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
    Establish an Energy Partnership
    for the Americas
    Expand the Nurse-Family
    Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
    Release presidential records
    Require new hires to sign a form
    affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
    Provide affordable, high-quality child care
    Reform No Child Left Behind
    Recruit math and science degree
    graduates to the teaching profession
    Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect
    student borrower
    Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
    Increase funding for national
    parks and forests
    Increase funding for the Land and
    Water Conservation Fund
    Encourage farmers to use more
    renewable energy and be more energy efficient
    Expand Pell grants for low-income students
    Create a community college
    partnership program
    Pursue a wildfire management plan
    Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel
    wildfires
    More controlled burns to reduce wildfires
    Expand access to places to hunt
    and fish
    Push for enactment of Matthew
    Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and
    other factors
    Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't
    Tell" policy
    Restore funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of
    Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
    Reform mandatory minimum sentences
    Create a White House Office on
    Urban Policy
    Fully fund the Community
    Development Block Grant (CDBG)
    Establish program to convert manufacturing
    centers into clean technology leaders
    Establish 'Promise Neighborhoods'
    for areas of concentrated poverty
    Create an artist corps for schools
    Champion the importance of arts
    education
    Support increased funding for the
    NEA
    Promote cultural diplomacy
    Add another Space Shuttle flight
    Use the private sector to improve
    spaceflight
    Work with international allies on
    space station
    Partner to enhance the potential
    of the International Space Station
    Use the International Space
    Station for fundamental biological and physical research
    Explore whether International Space Station can operate
    after 2016
    Conduct robust research and development on future space
    missions
    Increase spending to prepare for longer space missions
    Work toward deploying a global
    climate change research and monitoring system
    Enhance earth mapping
    Appoint an assistant to the president
    for science and technology policy
    Support commercial access to space
    Establish school programs to
    highlight space and science achievements
    Strengthen the levees in New Orleans
    Establish special crime programs
    for the New Orleans
    area
    Rebuild schools in New Orleans
    Fund a major expansion of
    AmeriCorps
    Create a Social Investment Fund
    NetworkBolster the military's ability to speak different languages
    Appoint the nation's first Chief
    Technology Officer
    Provide grants to early-career
    researchers
    Protect American intellectual
    property abroad
    Reform the patent system
    Increase efforts to reduce
    unintended pregnancy
    Work to overturn Ledbetter vs.
    Goodyear
    Stop the development of new nuclear weapons
    Create a national declassification
    center
    Appoint an American Indian policy
    adviser
    Create new financial regulations
    Increase funding for land-grant
    colleges
    Ban lobbyist gifts to executive
    employees
    Sign a "universal"
    health care bill
    Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
    Require 10 percent renewable
    energy by 2012
    Release oil from Strategic
    Petroleum Reserve
    Raise fuel economy standards
    Invest in all types of alternative
    energy
    Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
    Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
    Require more energy-efficient
    appliances
    Create a 'Green Vet Initiative' to promote environmental
    jobs for veterans
    Create job training programs for clean technologies
    Require states to provide
    incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
    Support high-speed rail
    Support airline service in small
    towns
    Invest in public transportation
    Equalize tax breaks for driving
    and public transit
    Consider "smart growth"
    in transportation funding
    Will seek more accommodations of
    bicycles and pedestrians
    Help states and localities address
    sprawl
    Share environmental technology
    with other countries
    Double federal spending for
    research on clean fuels
    Provide grants to encourage
    energy-efficient building codes
    Increase funding for the
    Environmental Protection Agency
    Appoint at least one Republican to
    the cabinet
    Fully fund federal contribution to the preservation of the Everglades
    Raise the small business
    investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
    Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily
    suspend taxes on these benefits
    Support network neutrality on the
    Internet
    Reverse restrictions on stem cell research
    Reproductive health care will be
    "at the heart" of health care reform.
    We will kill bin Laden
  • Gina Robinson
     Extend, create, expand, fund -  blah, blah blah ...... Just MORE government in your face.
    This country is in worse shape now with all these implementations.
    We are BROKE!!!