http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/30/end-no-bid-contracts-above-25000/
""Will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid." –
The recent awarding of a lucrative federal contract to a company owned by a financial contributor to the ***OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN — without competitive bidding **– "violated" President Obama’s many campaign pledges to crack down on the practice, a top State Department official told Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/31/state-department-admits-bid-contract-violates-obama-campaign-pledges/
And the list of Broken Promises grows…
End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000
End no-bid contracts above $25,000
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives
Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
Double funding for afterschool programs
Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws
Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage
Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit
Give annual "State of the World" address ( LMAO.. Thank GOD he Broke this one ! )
Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN
I think the nation is upset at both Democrats and the last Republican in office….Throw the Republicrat/Demolicians out! Leave the Democrat and Republican parties. Vote Independent, "Independent” which is really “Decline to State” or “No Party”. The last true American party left.
They just follow like mindless dolts
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We support him regardless of anything.
Like you with Bush.
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They’ll defend him no matter what.
You can add to your list, that Obama wants to EXTEND the PATRIOT ACT.
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I think the nation is upset at both Democrats and the last Republican in office….Throw the Republicrat/Demolicians out! Leave the Democrat and Republican parties. Vote Independent, "Independent” which is really “Decline to State” or “No Party”. The last true American party left.
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They don’t even pay attention to what is going on. I live in an area that is infested with them and talk to them daily. They only know about celebrity gossip and believe that the only political issues are gay marriage, marijuana and abortion.
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I’m surprised you didn’t go off after writing this question. . . Because the BS in it is rather thick.
And I read this question, and what is it you want me to answer? I don’t follow something because someone states it – guess that is why I typically fall into the "Independent" ranks of politics. I do my research, look at everything, and then make up my own mind.
Political parties are for sheep. Voting for someone due to a letter in front of their nation is more offensive to me than anything that you think President Obama has done. Republicans are no better than Democrats, and Conservatives are no better than Liberals.
What needs to happen is the stopping of the political Bulls**t and start looking at what is good for the nation – not what is best for your political views or aspirations. Until that happens, you will be on this board pissed about what is going on in government, and I will continue to post this very same response to it.
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Most people understand what a campaign promise is. I guess you don’t. He cant control congress, and unless you are as critical of every president who has broken promises you are a hypocrite.
Plus, he kept 92 and broke 15. Rational people that aren’t filled with hate and contempt realize that is a pretty good record.
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Maybe Lawgirl could list the 92 that he kept, for us, the under-informed. Mr. Obama’s view of the WORLD, not just the US, is to have peace among all men, and women. He plans on achieving this goal by setting down and talking face to face with all nation’s leaders to negotiate a common ground upon which we can base future endeavors. He’d like us all to have free health care, free food, free heat, or A/C, free everything that we need to live, somewhat similar to the worlds you see in Star Trek, or other futuristic societies in movies. Did anyone ever see any of the movie stars pay for anything in the movie, NO, they are magically provided with everything they need, and ironically, at the exact time they need it. He would like us to live in a society where everyone does work for the good of everyone else, not necessarily for personal gain, but because it’s the right thing to do for the world and it’s inhabitants. And how wonderful that would be, IF that could be, BUT IT CAN’T. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. It’s called socialism and people aren’t built to accept the concept, at least most of us aren’t. He and his cronies are trying to overload this system we call an economy, by talking more and more people into believing that the government is good, and if some government is good, more would be better and more than that would be even better, until the government provides everything we have, need or want, and controls our lives from birth to burial. Of course, that’s going to cost a lot of money, which will mean more debt, and more and better taxes, which will eventually break most of us. Then we’ll look to the government to help us, feed us, clothe us, provide us with a job, provide, provide, provide, and it’s not because we’ve earned it, it’s because we’re ENTITLED to it, because we’re here and breathing. We’re ENTITLED to a job, and a home, and an education, and heat and food, and on and on, and on. Our constitution doesn’t guarantee us ANYTHING except the RIGHT TO TRY TO EARN ALL THESE THINGS. That’s the right we have, the one to TRY. Everything else is earned by that. It’s close enough to that already, I say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. It’s time we took this country back. Elected government officials, whether they be Representatives or Senators are all serving at OUR PLEASURE. And my pleasure this November will be to work for the unseating of nearly every Democrat that’s currently serving in any capacity, that’s up for re-election and the replacment by the most qualified condidate that runs against them.
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to libs, anything is better than Bush – the devil incarnate – & Republicans. The country could be overrun by moslems & they’d still be that way.
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