"And what I've said is, I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

Obama / Aug. 21, 2008, at a town hall in Chester, Va.

campaign promises are merely suggestions

your definition of "campaign promises" is different from mine! mine has something to do with "bull" and "sh**"! As all political promises!!

These promises duped many voters into believing President Obama would be different...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFYBU

All broken already....

prom·ise

1 a : a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified b : a legally binding declaration that gives the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act
2 : reason to expect something <little promise of relief>; especially : ground for expectation of success, improvement, or excellence <shows considerable promise>
3 : something that is promised


that is the dictionary's definition. Politicians have their own definition

And the most of the rest were duped into thinking any one who we were "allowed" to vote for would be significantly different when it came to keeping campaign promises. Life goes on.