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() Lets see how well you can validate some of these:
1) President Obama promised that earmarks would be banned from any stimulus bill that he signed into law. In January, he said, "We will ban all earmarks in the recovery package... And I describe earmarks as the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review. So what I'm saying is, we're not having earmarks in the recovery package, period.”
Despite condemning the earmark process and vowing to crack down on its widespread embrace, President Obama signed a stimulus bill in February, containing roughly 9,000 earmarks, totaling $5 billion.
2)President Obama promised multiple times during his campaign that if elected president, he would ask Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Then presidential candidate Obama stated, "I will make sure that we renegotiate, I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced."
In April, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk confirmed that the Obama Administration had no intention of changing NAFTA.
3) President Obama promised during his campaign that, if elected, Americans would never again have to put their money on the line for Wall Street. In October 2008, he said, “So let me be very clear: when I am president, financial institutions will do their part and pay their share, and American taxpayers will never again have to put their money on the line to pay for the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street. That’s a pledge that I’ll make to you today, and it’s one that I’ll keep as President of the United States.”
President Obama fell short on his campaign promise when the government bailed out failing institutions, such as AIG.
4) “No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration." —Obama ethics plan
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5) "Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
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6) “They (lobbyists) won’t work in my White House… They are not going to dominate my White House…. You will not be able to go lobby for an industry that you regulated, and I won’t hire somebody into my administration regulating the industry he or she worked for.”
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