What everyone says, and more so pledges, is cared for, by most who pay attention to the issues that effects them the most....such as healthcare and national security. Especially by those said decisions impact directly. So you can stick your hand in the sand, and pretend he never made such comments, but reality rears a monumental inconvenient truth....that Obama made it crystal clear.....(kinda along the lines of if you like your Doctor/Insurance, you could keep it....period) that what he just did, was clearly and constitutionally prohibited from doing
There was no rush...this didn't have to be done now, (or ever for that matter, since it wasn't the executuve branch's jurisdiction to supercede existing immigration law). The people spoke in Nov, and made it clear that they didn't want to have happen, what just happened. He could have waited for the new elected legislators to come together, and with new elected officials, come new ideas, and new opportunities TO WORK TOGETHER.
But instead, Obama gives his middle finger to the voters, and screws any chance of some substantive bipartisan legislation/reforms
Then again, that was probably his intention, all along