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Obama Promises Disappear from Web
Sunlight Foundation ^ | 26Jul 2013 | John Wonderlich

Posted on 07/26/2013 11:56:56 AM PDT by mandaladon

Change.gov, the website created by the Obama transition team in 2008, has effectively disappeared sometime over the last month.

While the front splash page for Change.gov has linked to the main White House website for years, until recently, you could still continue on to see the materials and agenda laid out by the administration. This was a particularly helpful resource for those looking to compare Obama's performance in office against his vision for reform, laid out in detail on Change.gov.

According to the Internet Archive, the last time that content (beyond the splash page) was available was June 8th -- last month.

Why the change?

Here's one possibility, from the administration's ethics agenda:

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. It may be that Obama's description of the importance of whistleblowers went from being an artifact of his campaign to a political liability. It wouldn't be the first time administration positions disappear from the internet when they become inconvenient descriptions of their assurances.

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Obama's vision for lobbying transparency has similarly been discarded along the way, but the timing here suggests that the heat on Obama's whistleblower prosecutions has led the administration to unceremoniously remove their previous positions....................The most transparent administration? BS
1 posted on 07/26/2013 11:56:56 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

I wonder if some enterprising soul archived the page someplace?


2 posted on 07/26/2013 11:58:40 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: mandaladon

I wish Obama would disappear along with his lackeys.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 11:59:16 AM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


4 posted on 07/26/2013 12:00:22 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Old Sarge

Thanks to Google we can see that the website has a date on it of July 16, 2013. It may still possible to get the last copy of the website from Google.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 12:00:44 PM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: Nachum

What?
I don’t get it.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 12:02:45 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mandaladon

He don’t need no stinking Promises


7 posted on 07/26/2013 12:03:42 PM PDT by molson209
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To: mandaladon

First they take “1984” as an operations manual (see NSA snooping), and now they look to “Animal House” for instruction by changing the writing on the propaganda wall. Who’s going to notice, remember, or care?


8 posted on 07/26/2013 12:06:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mandaladon

Something very insidious is in the works, folks. The parallels to points in history are striking. Scrubbing of libraries/databases is akin to the Nazi book burnings. They don’t want anything incriminating to remain.

It’s like watching a big storm form in the distance. You can’t do a damn thing to get out of the way and just watch in horror as the maelstrom grows.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 12:06:47 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: All

I meant “Animal Farm”, not “Animal House”. I must have engaged in distracted typing.


10 posted on 07/26/2013 12:07:49 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mandaladon

or....maybe their contract with the webhosting company ran out and they just quit paying the bill?

Occam’s Razor


11 posted on 07/26/2013 12:08:14 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Funny, I knew what you meant anyway...there are enough parallels...


12 posted on 07/26/2013 12:10:11 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Old Sarge

From HP:
“The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment on why the page was deleted. The site had offered a way to compare Obama’s promises and administration actions and still can be viewed on the Wayback archive.”
http://web.archive.org/web/20130425082834/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/


13 posted on 07/26/2013 12:10:42 PM PDT by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: mandaladon
Back in 1992, the Clinton team said his would be the most ethical open presidency ever. Do I see a pattern here?  Ah yes!




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14 posted on 07/26/2013 12:12:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: mandaladon

He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.

But he doesn’t control the present. Here’s the proof:
“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.”
According to his HHS goons ...... Nobama was wrong.

Long live Free Republic!


15 posted on 07/26/2013 12:16:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: mandaladon

Disappeared? Well they don’t call him the “Magic Negro” for nothing!


16 posted on 07/26/2013 12:16:06 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: mandaladon

17 posted on 07/26/2013 12:18:37 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: mandaladon

Nothing disappears on the Interwebs. That goes for the Left, too.


18 posted on 07/26/2013 12:21:39 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: mandaladon
Why the change?

Easy...it highlights the blatant hypocrisy and lying of this criminal regime.

19 posted on 07/26/2013 12:22:05 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: rarestia
http://web.archive.org/web/20130125192534/http://www.change.org/
20 posted on 07/26/2013 12:23:08 PM PDT by Frapster (Clear the mechanism)
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