Candidate Obama initially supported the measure, whose most important feature would forbid local, state or federal governments to interfere with a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy prior to viability, and promised he would pass the act once president.

In March 2009, President Obama said the act was not his “highest legislative priority.” The Freedom of Choice Act has since effectively been shelved.

President Obama, when brokering a major deal on taxes; economic stimulus and welfare benefits in the last weeks of 2010, agreed to maintain the current tax rates for high earners, a rate he repeatedly said during the campaign he planned to let expire in 2011, a deadline set by the George W. Bush administration.

If the promise was high on the presidential agenda, recent attempts to implement a quota for renewable energy by a specific date were stopped in their tracks by the lack of bipartisanship in Congress and the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in 2010.

While the program was indeed created, and funded with 75 billion dollars, it failed to alleviate house-owners' burden, helping a mere 500,000 when millions are still struggling.

Experts blamed the “lack of enforcement on the part of the U.S Treasury Department” of the rules on the biggest U.S banks owning a majority of the mortgages.

The last US combat brigade left Iraq around August 19, 2010, making good on then president Obama's promise in February 2009 to have combat troops removed by August 31, 2010.

The last US soldiers pulled out of Iraq on December 18, 2011.

Barack Obama failed to deliver on this campaign promise when, on March 7, 2011, he signed an executive order resuming military trials for Guantanamo detainees and upheld prolonged detention of detainees even if they have not been charged or convicted.

In an executive order signed on January 22, 2009, only 2 days after office, President Obama modified the administration's stance on torture.

The order said that prisoners “shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (…) nor to outrage upon personal dignity...” With the same stroke of a pen, Obama also nullified all interpretation of federal law on interrogations issued by the Department of Justice between September 11, 2001 and January 20, 2009 under President George W. Bush.

Politifact's fact-checkers concluded that with a Congress in which Republicans control the U.S House of Representatives, it was highly unlikely to see an immigration reform pass.

However, actions, meetings and memos from the President makes Politifact think he is trying to “rekindle public conversation and reset the debate in favor of immigration reform.”

With ever-increasing education costs, the Obama administration managed to keep its promise to act and protect students, pushing for a shift from private to government-managed college loans.

On March 30, 2010, Obama signed a bill to eliminate government subsidies to private student lenders, part of said subsidies now going to expand federal programs to help low-income students fund their education.

One of Obama's main campaign promises and biggest political battle of his first term, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed on March 23, 2010.

Part of the bill, the so-called individual mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance, got challenged at the US Supreme Court, which ruled it constitutional on June 28, 2012, much to the President's relief.

Candidate Obama vowed to support the end of the Defense of Marriage Act, which was signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 and defined marriage as between a man and a woman, and enact legislation putting an end to the legal exclusion of same-sex couples from more than a thousand federal rights and protections.

As a president though, Obama did not deliver on his promise, the law remains on the books and same-sex couples still do not enjoy the same federal rights and protections as heterosexual couples.

For the past 17 years, the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

Congress voted to overturn the law, President Barack Obama signed to bill into law on December 22, 2010 and, after a transition period, “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” formally ended on September 20, 2011 according to the White House.

Politifact's fact-checkers concluded that “the near future looks bleak for Obama's green jobs promise but since he gave himself a 10-year window,” his promise is In the Works for now.

While “many signs point to significant progress on stemming illegal immigration, including added staff and resources in border security”, one must keep in mind that “reports have indicated that a sizeable portion of the border is not under "operational control."

Accordingly, Politifact's fact-checkers rate this promise a Compromise.

Passed in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the Patriot Act saw some of its key features reauthorized by President Obama when he signed on May 26, 2011.

On that day, the US President signed a bill that called for the renewal of controversial elements, for example allowing wiretapping by law enforcement to track targets if they change phones without judicial oversight.

However the Department of Justice decided to independently implement some oversight measures inspired from a failed bill.