"In addition, he says all the right things, but in many cases, his actions are very similar to Bush Jr's. On top of it, I voted for him, because I hated Bush Jr's Constitutional abuses and I figured that Obama, a Constitutional Law Professor, would be a defender of the Constitution."
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It's called bait and switch, and maybe that's just the inescapable destiny of high-level politics currently. It's hard to say if a full-on right wing takeover would be worse than a slow boil, but the erosion of our civil liberties and the twisting of legal language are something any person paying attention should be protesting.
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Obama Promises Disappear from Web
by John WonderlichJuly 25, 2013, 11:31 a.m.
Change.gov, the website created by the Obama transition team in 2008, has effectively disappeared sometime over the last month.
While front splash page for 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.
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.
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