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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeed help in locating a few campaign promises....
The pre-election campaign made promises that Pres. Obama and VP Biden would carry out.
But I can't find the results.
Here are a couple:
As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public.
As president, Obama will create a "contracts and influence" database that will disclose how much federal contractors spend on lobbying, and what contracts they are getting and how well they complete them.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will end abuse of no-bid contracts by requiring that nearly all contract orders over $25,000 be competitively awarded.
4.
or..... any of these..esp. the last one:
Make White House Communications Public: Obama will amend executive orders to ensure that communications about regulatory policymaking between persons outside government and all White House staff are disclosed to the public.
Conduct Regulatory Agency Business in Public: Obama will require his appointees who lead the executive branch departments and rulemaking agencies to conduct the significant business of the agency in public, so that any citizen can see these debates in person or watch them on the internet.
and esp. THIS....not sure how it is working out:
Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.
Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.
anyone know??
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,683 posts)That might be why you can't find any answers.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)the Obama we thought we elected in 2008
His evil twin is now in control.
Its a dystopian Kevin Kline movie called Dave...... the real story.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)thanks.....
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)and the president was a bit of an asshole and sellout.
Now about A Fish called Wanda....... Kevin Klien was my favorite asshole american of all time. .... Otto
Otto West: Don't call me stupid.
Wanda: Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Otto West: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Marvelous writing.
Kline is quite good at comedy...he has the face for it.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)but not a list of which ones were kept, and which ones have the promised websites.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)emulatorloo
(44,175 posts)"PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken."
Was referred to up thread.
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)But, if one chooses to bypass the process and release classified documents to a foreign power, then the Whistleblower Laws don't apply.
ms.smiler
(551 posts)I'm certain any week now he'll get around to delivering on that promise. (Has he even mentioned it since his first campaign?)
And just in case President Obama doesn't or can't get around to fixing NAFTA, there is also Hillary Clinton who promised to fix NAFTA. If she becomes the next President, I'm certain we can all count on her to deliver on her promise, probably in her second term or something.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)He's going to "fix" it by giving us NAFTA on Steroids
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would grant enormous new powers to corporations, is a massive assault on democracy.
Lori Wallach
June 27, 2012
While the Occupy movement has forced a public discussion of extreme corporate influence on every aspect of our lives, behind closed doors corporate America is implementing a stealth strategy to formalize its rule in a truly horrifying manner. The mechanism is the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Negotiations have been conducted in extreme secrecy, so you are in good company if you have never heard of it. But the thirteenth round of negotiations between the United States and eight Pacific Rim nations will be held in San Diego in early July.
The TPP has been cleverly misbranded as a trade agreement (yawn) by its corporate boosters. As a result, since George W. Bush initiated negotiations in 2008, it has cruised along under the radar. The Obama administration initially paused the talks, ostensibly to develop a new approach compatible with candidate Obamas pledges to replace the old NAFTA-based trade model. But by late 2009, talks restarted just where Bush had left off.
Since then, US negotiators have proposed new rights for Big Pharma and pushed into the text aspects of the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would limit Internet freedom, despite the derailing of SOPA in Congress earlier this year thanks to public activism. In June a text of the TPP investment chapter was leaked, revealing that US negotiators are even pushing to expand NAFTAs notorious corporate tribunals, which have been used to attack domestic public interest laws.
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Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPPs rulesin effect, a corporate coup détat. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and sweat-free, human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids#
I think the oldest promise unkept is Guantanamo.
Excuses don't cut it with me.