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Peter Burgess

2008 Iowa Caucus Victory Speech: Promises Kept

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Four years ago today, then Senator Barack Obama addressed a packed hall of energized supporters after the Iowa Caucuses victory. He spoke of the following:

'I'll be a President who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American... I'll be a President who ends tax breaks for companies who ship our jobs overseas and put a middle class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans who deserve...I'll be a President who harnesses ingenuity farmers, scientists, and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all... and I'll be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home.'

Four years later, here's what we've accomplished:

1. - Passed the Affordable Care Act to make health care more affordable for more than 30 million Americans.


2. - Cut taxes for 95% of working families and closed corporate tax loopholes that - were sending profits overseas.


3. - Put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil.


4. - Ended the war in Iraq.