WASHINGTON -- Now President Barack Obama has some promises to keep. His 2012 campaign wasn't nearly as full of measurable commitments as his first ...

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama was full of promise -- 508 of them to be precise. But with just six weeks to go until Election Day 2012, President Obama has made few new promises and is not repeating many of the original ones.

As president, Barack Obama has kept, compromised, or is currently working on an astounding 74 percent of his campaign promises, the equivalent of a Presidential batting title.

Americans are justifiably leery of political promises, whether from candidates or presidents. They have seen too many made and too few kept. The cynicism that promises generate increases the distrust of politics and politicians.

There is not a modern nation on the planet that can retire its debt with 10 percent unemployment. President Obama cannot and should not agree to the damaging choices being falsely laid out by Congressional Republican pretenders.

Tis the Season: A Victory for Civil Rights Let's celebrate this day, Dec 22 2010. It is the day President Barak Obama signs into the law the repeal o...

In 2008, President-elect Obama proposed a windfall profit tax on oil companies. When oil later dropped below $80/barrel, his staff declared the tax was unnecessary. But this week, oil rose above the $80 mark again. What next?

History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

Until everyone has health care none of us really do.

The president should make his struggle with smoking public. Very public.

The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.