Barry's big day...

Obama trounced McCain. It was inevitable and Tory Bear is over it. Regardless of his own political beliefs the inauguration of Barack Obama will be a pretty incredible thing to watch and TB has a six back of Bud cooling in the fridge. Washington is preparing for its $170 million party and the world is waiting with baited breath.

Just in case anyone thought it was all inauguration balls and dancing in the streets today, from Noon there, 5pm here Obama is the leader of the free world and let's take a peak at some of things he promised in order to get himself through the door:

• Close Guantanamo Bay -
  June 2007
• “Unrestricted rights” regarding travel and money remittances to Cuba -
  August 2007
• Stand firm against CAFTA -
  August 2007
• Remove all troops from Iraq -
  October 2007
  - Broken
  December 2008
• Face-to-face talks with Iran -
  November 2007
• Amend NAFTA -
  December 2007
• No action against Iran without Congressional approval -
  December 2007
• Get our troops out by end of 2009 -
  January 2008
• No permanent bases in Iraq -
  January 2008
• Unshakable support for Israel -
  May 2008
• Giving Israel $30 billion in aid -
  June 2008
• Switching focus to Pakistan -
  July 2008
• Switching focus to Afghanistan -
  July 2008

• Universal health care by end of first term -
  May 2007
• Ethics reform (restrictions on lobbying) -
  June 2007
• Merit pay for teachers -
  July 2007
• Sign Freedom of Choice Act -
  July 2007
• Net neutrality -
  October 2007
• Lobbyists “won’t work in my White House” -
  December 2007
  - Broken
  November 2008
• Health care benefits for vets -
  December 2007
• Financial aid to homeowners ($10 billion) -
  January 2008
• Credit card bill of rights -
  January 2008
• Will create searchable earmarks website -
  February 2008
• No public financing -
  February 2008
  - Broken
  October 2008
• Small business support -
  February 2008
• Gay employment bill -
  April 2008
• Raise cap on payroll tax for 3% of earners over $102,000 -
  April 2008
• Raise $97K cap on payroll tax exempting earnings under $250K -
  April 2008
• Roll back Bush tax cuts -
  April 2008
  - In jeopardy
  November 2008
• Regulating oil industry (Enron loop) -
  June 2008
• Helping college student loans (a $4,000 tax credit to help pay tuition and fees in exchange for 100 hours of community service. The campaign said the program would cost $10 billion a year) -
  June 2008
• $10 billion for early childhood education -
  June 2008
• 10% “universal mortgage credit” to homeowners who don’t itemize on their tax return -
  June 2008
• $150 billion a year for ten years to reduce dependency on foreign oil -
  June 2008
• Give American mayors more spending (”National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank” at a cost of $60 billion over 10 years) -
  June 2008
• Windfall profits tax -
  July 2008
  - Broken
  December 2008
• No NASA cuts -
  August 2008
• 1 Million Plug-in Hybrids by 2015 -
  August 2008
• Shuttle after 2010 -
  August 2008
• $1000 energy rebates -
  August 2008
• Will go line by line to check for unnecessary spending -
  September 2008
• Tax cuts for 95% of Americans, anyone under $75,000
  October 2008
• Not a single tax increase for Americans making under $250,000 -
  October 2008
• Raise minimum wage to $9.50 -
  November 2008
• 2.5 million jobs by January 2011 -
  November 2008
• Appoint Republicans to Cabinet -
  November 2008
  - Kept
  December 2008
• No smoking in White House -
  December 2008
• Taxes done in less than five minutes -
  No date

Better get to work straight away Mr President...

Hat-Tip to the

allamericanblogger

for keeping the list updated.