Tonight Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address, which the White House has said will refrain from the usual “laundry list” of new proposals.
That’s probably a wise strategy, based on how poorly he’s delivered on past State of the Union promises.
According to the media aggregation site Grabien, from 2009 through 2015, Obama made 140 promises that remain unfulfilled. The most notable are:
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- Curing cancer (promised 2009, 2010, 2015)
- Freezing government spending for three years (2010) and five years (2011)
- Colonizing outer space (2015)
- Going “line by line” through the budget, eliminating needless programs (2009, 2010)
- Inventing “material thinner than paper but stronger than steel” (2014)
- Passing health reform that will let Americans keep their insurance (2010)
- Converting sunlight into liquid fuel (2015)
- Passing comprehensive immigration reform (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
- Closing Gitmo (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2014)
- Passing a law that will prevent mass shootings (2014)
- Keeping earlier promises he’s already made (2013)
A montage of all 140 can be viewed here,
By the way, LU will be live-streaming the speech.
