Get out your hankies, naysayers because the truth hurts

The next time one of those reality repellent nay-sayers tells you that Obama is a liar or the next time one of them tells you that he has done nothing for America since being elected, take this list of promises President Obama has kept and….. well, you know what to do with it.

This list has all been fact-checked and, in fact, is an abbreviated version of the list of promises that President Obama has kept from  http://www.politifact.com/. Be sure to check out their website for the completely unabridged list of promises and see for yourself all the detail on each of these 188 promises.

1. Add another Space Shuttle flight
2. Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
3. Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
4. Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
5. Appoint an American Indian policy adviser
6. Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
7. Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet
8. Appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer
9. Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
10. Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as ‘must-pass’ legislation
11. Attract more students to science and math
12. Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
13. Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
14. Bolster the military’s ability to speak different languages
15. Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters
16. Champion the importance of arts education
17. Change standards for determining broadband access
18. Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
19. Conduct robust research and development on future space missions
20. Consider “smart growth” in transportation funding
21. Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities
22. Create a community college partnership program
23. Create a consumer-friendly credit card rating system
24. Create a ‘Green Vet Initiative’ to promote environmental jobs for veterans
25. Create a Homeowner Obligation Made Explicit (HOME) score for mortgage comparisons
26. Create a military families advisory board
27. Create a national declassification center
28. Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
29. Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
30. Create a Social Investment Fund Network
31. Create a White House Office on Urban Policy
32. Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
33. Create an artist corps for schools
34. Create an international tax haven watch list
35. Create job training programs for clean technologies
36. Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
37. Create new financial regulations
38. Create White House performance team and chief performance officer
39. Create youth service corps
40. Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
41. Double federal spending for research on clean fuels
42. Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
43. Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
44. Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
45. Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
46. End the “Stop-loss” program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments
47. End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
48. End the use of torture
49. Enhance earth mapping
50. Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit
51. Establish a credit card bill of rights
52. Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
53. Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
54. Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders
55. Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
56. Establish school programs to highlight space and science achievements
57. Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
58. Expand access to places to hunt and fish
59. Expand eligibility for Medicaid
60. Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
61. Expand federal bioforensics program for tracking biological weapons
62. Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
63. Expand housing vouchers program for homeless veterans
64. Expand loan programs for small businesses
65. Expand Pell grants for low-income students
66. Expand public/private partnerships between schools and arts organizations
67. Expand teacher mentoring programs and provide incentives for more planning time
68. Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
69. Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
70. Expand the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
71. Expand Veterans Centers in rural areas
72. Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016
73. Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
74. Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
75. Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
76. Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
77. Extend the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)
78. Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
79. Fully fund federal contribution to the preservation of the Everglades
80. Fully fund the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
81. Fully fund the Veterans Administration
82. Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act
83. Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
84. Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
85. Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
86. Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
87. Help states and localities address sprawl
88. If you don’t have insurance, or don’t like the insurance you have, you’ll be able to choose a new plan on a health insurance exchange
89. Implement “Women Owned Business” contracting program
90. Implement and fund proven health intervention programs
91. Improve climate change data records
92. Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
93. Improve water quality
94. In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
95. Increase efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
96. Increase funding for land-grant colleges
97. Increase funding for local emergency planning
98. Increase funding for national parks and forests
99. Increase funding for progams that conserve lands and habitat for select species such as the Osceola turkey
100. Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
101. Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
102. Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
103. Increase minority access to capital
104. Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion
105. Increase special operations forces and civil affairs
106. Increase spending to prepare for longer space missions
107. Increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps
108. Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
109. Initiate a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime
110. Invest in all types of alternative energy
111. Invest in public transportation
112. Launch a supportive services-housing program for veterans to prevent homelessness
113. Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
114. Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities
115. Make greater investment in advanced military air technology
116. Make military deployments predictable for troops and families
117. Make National Guard leader a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
118. Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
119. More controlled burns to reduce wildfires
120. No permanent bases in Iraq
121. Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
122. Open new consulates “in the tough and hopeless corners of the world”
123. Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010
124. Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station
125. Promote cultural diplomacy
126. Promote innovative ways to reward good teachers
127. Promote more pre-school education
128. Protect American intellectual property abroad
129. Provide $30 billion over 10 years to Israel
130. Provide affordable, high-quality child care
131. Provide grants to early-career researchers
132. Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
133. Pursue a wildfire management plan
134. Push for a college football playoff system
135. Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
136. Raise fuel economy standards
137. Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
138. Rebuild schools in New Orleans
139. Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
140. Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
141. Reform mandatory minimum sentences
142. Reform No Child Left Behind
143. Reform the patent system
144. Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
145. Release oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
146. Release presidential records
147. Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
148. Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
149. Reproductive health care will be “at the heart” of health care reform.
150. Require 10 percent renewable energy by 2012
151. Require Cabinet officials to host Internet town hall meetings
152. Require children to have health insurance coverage
153. Require economic justification for tax changes
154. Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
155. Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
156. Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan
157. Require more energy-efficient appliances
158. Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
159. Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
160. Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
161. Restore funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
162. Reverse restrictions on stem cell research
163. Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles
164. Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
165. Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
166. Share enviromental technology with other countries
167. Sign a “universal” health care bill
168. Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty
169. Stop the development of new nuclear weapons
170. Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
171. Strengthen antitrust enforcement
172. Strengthen the levees in New Orleans
173. Support airline service in small towns
174. Support commercial access to space
175. Support funding and reform for Amtrak
176. Support high-speed rail
177. Support increased funding for the NEA
178. Support network neutrality on the Internet
179. Support regional innovation clusters
180. Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research
181. Use the private sector to improve spaceflight
182. Vigorously pursue hate crimes and civil rights abuses
183. We will kill bin Laden
184. Will seek more accommodations of bicycles and pedestrians
185. Work to build natural gas pipeline from Alaska
186. Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
187. Work toward deploying a global climate change research andmonitoring system
188. Work with international allies on space station