Democratic debates

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Interesting that Pres. Obama announced his decision to leave thousands of US troops in Afghanistan after the debate

Why do we care about political promises(from both parties) anyways.

the problem is that we generally use past performance as a measure for future results, and it's been proven to be a terrible way to try and predict things.

candidates do keep the majority of their promises (something like 85-90% i believe), but we always remember the ones they fail on.

not trying to absolve obama or anything, i don't think he's done a very good job overall, but i do understand the need to keep afghanistan from collapsing. I mean, we never left germany or japan, england or australia after WWII.