Keeping (some) promises

Minot (N.D.) Daily News: Give President Barack Obama credit – if you want to call it that – for one thing: He is keeping his campaign promises, even when that requires lying to the American people.

He vowed to shut down coal-fired power plants and is carrying through with that. One means of dampening criticism was to let reports of the severity of new emissions limits stand for years – then release far more draconian rules on more than a dozen states.

And, of course, many people remember the “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” promise made over and over again to help foist Obamacare on the nation. Another promise to the American people broken so he could keep a campaign pledge.

Now, Obama is trying again to keep another promise, to close the U.S. prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Previous attempts to do that have met with severe criticism from the public and heavy opposition in Congress.

But now, it is reported the Pentagon is looking at two U.S. sites to which Guantanamo inmates could be transferred.

Yes, the president keeps his promises. Some of them, anyway.