but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don t. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i have spent the last few months blaming congress for things, but it s not congress who is going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise. it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire presidency. i