It should come as no surprise that what candidate Obama has said is not what President Obama has done. During the 2008 campaign, Obama repeated the promise of not awarding no-bid contracts, however, Fox News uncovered a no-bid contract the Obama administration awarded to a big time Democrat contributor.
After this $25 million no-bid contract was exposed by Fox, the administration immediately cancelled the deal. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked how many other no-bid contracts were awarded and he did not immediately have an answer telling the reporter that he would “get back to him”.
The U.S. has canceled a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan awarded to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor who did not face competitive bids.
The cancellation comes after Fox News first reported on the details of the contract last week, prompting lawmakers to make inquiries into the deal.
State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley said that USAID terminated the award and is now working on an appropriate resolution.
“If you want to say this violates the basis on which this administration came into office and campaigned, fair enough,” Crowley told Fox News.
The contract had been awarded on Jan. 4 to Checchi & Company Consulting, a Washington-based firm owned by economist and Democratic donor Vincent V. Checchi that was hired to provide “rule of law stabilization services” in war-torn Afghanistan… continued
Those who voted for Obama had “hope” for “change”, but clearly, Obama is more of the same. Obama campaigned against another 4 years of Bush policies, however, liberals may be disappointed that his Iraq policy, Afghanistan policy, no-bid contracts, lobbyist influences, back room deals, partisanship politics, Guantanamo Bay “torture” camps, payoffs to political cronies, wiretapping, cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, and steering of political jobs are a continuation of the supposed practices of Bush. Will Obama’s political identification be enough for the liberals to find this palatable?
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