The Post recently launched an interactive webpage to profile President Obama’s record on his campaign promises after one year in office. The Post put the promises into three categories: To Do, In Progress and Completed. However, conspicuously missing from the graphic is a list of the campaign promises the president has broken in his first year in office.

AFP offers the following corrections to the Post’s analysis, which it sent to the paper to assist it in offering a more complete portrayal.

The Post failed to include a “Broken” category to its graphic, which would include:

• Promise: Not to raise taxes “one dime” on families making less than $250,000 a year.

• Reality: Obama signed a bill that increased the federal cigarette tax to $1.01 per pack. Smokers are disproportionately low-income earners and will face the brunt of this new tax.

• Promise: Eliminate earmarks “line-by-line” in the federal budget process

• Reality: Obama signed a $410 billion omnibus bill full of earmarks in March 2009.

• Promise: Provide transparency to the health care debate by allowing C-SPAN cameras to broadcast the negotiations.

• Reality: The president himself admitted it was a mistake not to allow cameras into the backrooms where Democratic leaders were hashing out the difference between the House and Senate versions of the health care bill.

The Post falsely claims Obama “Completed”:

• Promise: Banning registered lobbyists from working in the administration.

• Reality: Numerous registered lobbyists work in high profile positions in the Obama Administration, including the recent addition of Mark Patterson, a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs

• Promise: Implement permanent tax cut of $500 for individuals and $1,000 for families.

• Reality: The tax cuts were part of the stimulus package passed early in the administration and the cuts were temporary, expiring after 2010. Additionally, the tax credits were for $400 and $800 respectively, less than was promised.

Fact check webpages are a great thing. But if they distort the record—as the Post’s site does—they are a disservice. The Post should know better than to omit Obama’s broken promises from its website, and AFP urges them to correct the record.