The blustering, loud speeches delivered at the 2012 Democratic National Convention made many promises on behalf of President Obama during his bid for re-election.
Much of it had to do with the supposed economic recovery, which key Democrats acknowledged had not fully occurred but was certainly on the way.
"If you will renew the president's contract, you will feel it," former president Bill Clinton said. "You will feel it."
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm shouted until she was actually red in the face that in 2009 "Barack Obama came in," "saved the American auto industry," and "jump-started our engine" when American markets collapsed.
Yet labor-force participation has dwindled each year of the Obama presidency to lows not seen since the 1970s, and the economy has grown at half the rate of past American recoveries, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Vice President Joe Biden said he was proud to serve under Obama since he always has "courage to make the tough decision."
Since then, Obama has backed off his own red line on Syria, amazingly claimed it wasn't his decision to pull American ground troops out of Iraq as the terrorist group ISIL mowed down the country, uttered the "Lie of the Year" about cancelled insurance plans under Obamacare and, on Saturday, told Meet the Press that his delay on immigration executive actions until after the 2014 election wasn't about helping Democratic Senators.
Secretary of State John Kerry trumpeted Obama's strong relationship with Israel, which was already in bad shape and now stands in tatters.
Kerry himself sandbagged Israel when he mocked the Jewish state's defensive actions against Hamas in Gaza as "a hell of a pinpoint operation" given the civilian casualties there, and Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Obama's 2013 nuclear deal with Iran as a "historic mistake."
In the same DNC speech, Kerry blasted Republican candidate Mitt Romney for calling Russia our "No. 1 geopolitical foe," a criticism Kerry and many other Obama administration officials would love to have back.