Old Goat asked:
Improve options for displaced workers
Help community and small business development agencies
Improve rural schools and availability of doctors
Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems
Give new farmers tax incentives
Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses
Create rural revitalization program
Improve high school graduation rates
Double the number of high school students taking college level courses
Double charter school funding
Include more technology in public schools
Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service
Recruit teachers and principals
Recruit science and technology teachers
Provide pay raises for teachers and principals
Pay tuition for students going into teaching
Increase Head Start and Early Start
Create Classroom Corps
Double funding for after-school programs
Improve No Child Left Behind
Lower dropout rate
Provide incentives for rural teachers
Increase assistance to land-grant colleges
End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years
Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars
Double renewable energy within four years
Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years
Cap carbon emissions
Create new green-collar jobs
Help U.S. automaker adapt
Reduce oil consumption
Help manufacturers go green
Double clean-energy funding
Create Green Jobs Corps
Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund
Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies
Push cellulosic ethanol
Create energy-efficiency grant program
Provide universal health care
Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system
Expand nurse-family partnership program
Help individuals purchase private health insurance
Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
Address women’s health issues
Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses
Help homeowners
Create an affordable-housing trust
Protect New Orleans
Invest $60 billion in infrastructure
Invest in rural infrastructure
Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs
Provide every American broadband access
Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area
Support a global education fund
Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence
Expand Army and Marine Corps
Provide soldiers with necessary equipment
Target every source of fear in the Americas
Create information declassification center
Ensure military has enough training
Strengthen civilian agencies
Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest
Create international anti-terrorism network
Make cyber-security a federal priority
Update Veterans Affairs hospital system
Ensure all veterans are covered
Ensure adequate number of VA clinics
Increase housing assistance
Fully fund VA
Improve military’s mental health screening and care
Improve care for various injuries and women’s health through VA
Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans
Improve options for displaced workers
Help community and small business development agencies
Improve rural schools and availability of doctors
Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems
Give new farmers tax incentives
Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses
Create rural revitalization program
Improve high school graduation rates
Double the number of high school students taking college level courses
Double charter school funding
Include more technology in public schools
Provide tuition assistance to students who perform community service
Recruit teachers and principals
Recruit science and technology teachers
Provide pay raises for teachers and principals
Pay tuition for students going into teaching
Increase Head Start and Early Start
Create Classroom Corps
Double funding for after-school programs
Improve No Child Left Behind
Lower dropout rate
Provide incentives for rural teachers
Increase assistance to land-grant colleges
End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years
Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars
Double renewable energy within four years
Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years
Cap carbon emissions
Create new green-collar jobs
Help U.S. automaker adapt
Reduce oil consumption
Help manufacturers go green
Double clean-energy funding
Create Green Jobs Corps
Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund
Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies
Push cellulosic ethanol
Create energy-efficiency grant program
Provide universal health care
Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system
Expand nurse-family partnership program
Help individuals purchase private health insurance
Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
Address women’s health issues
Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses
Help homeowners
Create an affordable-housing trust
Protect New Orleans
Invest $60 billion in infrastructure
Invest in rural infrastructure
Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs
Provide every American broadband access
Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area
Support a global education fund
Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence
Expand Army and Marine Corps
Provide soldiers with necessary equipment
Target every source of fear in the Americas
Create information declassification center
Ensure military has enough training
Strengthen civilian agencies
Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest
Create international anti-terrorism network
Make cyber-security a federal priority
Update Veterans Affairs hospital system
Ensure all veterans are covered
Ensure adequate number of VA clinics
Increase housing assistance
Fully fund VA
Improve military’s mental health screening and care
Improve care for various injuries and women’s health through VA
Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:43 am
He, himself and his supporters, have set the bar entirely to high. He will never meet all those goals. Not even if he is reelected in four years.
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:23 pm
He made a promise so every voter will feel like he is going to do something for them… lets see what he delivers on and his excuses for not. He was still making promises after the collapse of Wall Street so he will not be able to blame the economy for it.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
All candidates promise too much and deliver too little. That’s not to say it is all his fault, he is only 1 man and only one part of government. He can’t do anything without the support of Congress, while even though it is controlled by Democrats, they will still have different opinions and goals then Obama.
January 7th, 2010 at 4:53 am
Wow, I knew he was full of it, but I didn’t realize how much.
January 8th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Nobody meets all their goals. Bush said he would not nation build, or submit anything other than a balanced budget.
January 9th, 2010 at 5:46 am
Er, yeah.
Can you say $1 trillion/year deficits?
I knew you could.
January 11th, 2010 at 5:26 am
no, he gave himself his first full day in the WH to get all this stuff done.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:18 am
He seems to have confused the term “Promise” and “Lie”.No matter though. All those that THOUGHT they heard him “promise” all that stuff will turn out to be just confused. He will have no recollection of saying anything close to that.
January 14th, 2010 at 5:43 am
It has nothing to do with anything he promised!! it has to do with the fact that he walked in the back door, an empty suit, and hoodwinked an entire nation, and the sheeple followed real well!!!! didn’t they!!