The campaign promise was to to set goals for no lobbyists, it was to not allow lobbyists. There is a tremendous difference there.
To make a statement like that and then appoint a lobbyist, even if its one out of a thousand, still breaks the campaign promise in my opinion. If he knew he could not fulfill it, then maybe he should not have been so absolute when making the promise. Using you 'resolution' example. I don't know anyone who would layout their entire exercise routine as a resolution. They would most likely say "I am going to get in shape" or "I am going to lose weight", so skipping that Thursday workout is not going to be detrimental to the resolution. However, the difference is in the details. If they actually did layout their exercise program AS their resolution, then yes, skipping exercise that Thursday would, technically, break that resolution. If Obama had said, drastically reduce the number of lobbyists appointed, he would have been covered, and met that promise 100% so far (and most likely his entire presidency). But he didn't, he said no lobbyists would be appointed. And THAT promise he broke. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bruce wrote: > > > > He hire a lobbyist and a defense contractor all rolled into one. How is > > that different that Haliburton? And he broke a campaign promise in doing > > that. > > > > That's one way to look at it and, no offense, I think it's the childish > way. > > 1.) He immediately set a BHAG: no lobbyists. Campaign promise fulfilled. > > 2.) His SecDef told him the best guy for the job is X, and hopefully > explained why in great detail. > > 3.) He granted an exception. > > As Washington is absolutely overwhelmed with lobbyists since that was > old way, and since no president before him has ever even attempted > anything close to his BHAG, I'll grant the exception as 99% complete. > > Now if half of his appointees were lobbyists, I'll grant you the > point. If 25% or 15% were I'd grant you the point. > > But 1??? or 2??? Come on. > > You're just picking knits to be religious. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287580 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
