Where you and your buddies can fight against policies like educational funding and infrastructure investment and then try to hang Obama for not fulfilling his promises.
Whether or not the Bolivarian Revolution succeeded in fulfilling its promises or whether it has created a fiscal cliff has less weight than the loyalties and identification of its followers.
But McGuinness says it would have been a mistake for Jindal to try to change tradition before fulfilling his campaign promises to clean up corruption and improve the economy.
So it is going to be extremely tough for President Lula to achieve a further fiscal tightening while fulfilling his many election promises for extra social spending, such as a bold pledge to ensure that every poor Brazilian gets three square meals a day.
Then, there is the Obama administration's decision to assault the military's culture by fulfilling another of the President's campaign promises - this one to homosexual activists.
It is perhaps the only one of his numerous campaign promises that he may end up fulfilling and it looks certain to be one of his most lasting legacies.