Posted on 01/31/2010 2:41:55 PM PST by Nachum
The recent awarding of a lucrative federal contract to a company owned by a financial contributor to the Obama presidential campaign -- without competitive bidding -- "violates" President Obama's many campaign pledges to crack down on the practice, a top State Department official told Fox News.
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.
Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley, familiar to many Americans from his erudite delivery of the State Department's daily press briefings, made the admission in a telephone interview Saturday night.
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The list, ping
You are not supposed to know this peons. Move along.
He promised Utopia and delivered the South Bronx.
I’ll bet you a million dollars it isn’t Halliburton.
Government is political business as usual. More government is more corruption. Dump it all.
What do you really expect from someone who thinks that he is above everything. Rules are for everyone else, not him, and he shows that by breaking every promise he made while running for this office.
He had no intention of keeping his word, as it means nothing to him except as a means to an end.
more like the South Side.
“I forgot.”
Is anybody really surprised that the Bamtard is a crook?
Otherwise, non story.
So what did they do, terminate the contract “for convince of the government”? If so, now the contractor can file a claim for all they have spent to date. I’m sure the books will be cooked, so that they still walk away with a handsome sum. Would be nice to see how much this all gets settled for.
Campaign pledge?
The only things that passed and will always pass from his lips are lies, then, now and always LIES.
Obama and his gang break so many laws every day that we can’t even keep up with them.
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