Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare web

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Haha unlike both Bush presidents? How many of their oil buddies got deals? How many came out ahead in reconstruction periods? What a joke.

 

Well looky here who won the contract to distribute nearly $2B in funds to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Could this admin be any more corrupt?

http://drudgegae.iavian.net/r?hop=h...n-charge-of-nearly-2-billion-in-sandy-relief/

 

No bid contract going to a company employing a highly placed executive whom Michelle carpet munched her way through Princeton with. No biggie, not if you're a Democrat.

Remember Inspector General Gerald Walpin who was getting nigh on close to nailin the mayor of Sacramento, a close acquaintance of Michelle's, no less, on corruption charges, misappropriatin government funds to get his car washed along with various other sundry household tasks with some o those funds even findin their way into his campaign chest. One o the first things Comrade Barack did, after givin that bust o Winston Churchill, graciously donated out of the generosity o the English People, the heave ho into the White House garbage dumpster, was to fire Gerald Walpin.

 

Yea the portion the wants something for nothing without worrying or caring who's paying for it. Like these mental midgets.

[video=youtube;F2yT_ROmsrg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2yT_ROmsrg[/video]

 

Right Margot, some idiots don't know how Washington works. Besides ivy league grads move in the same powerful circles which are always connected in business ventures. As you've said CGI had contracts with the US government years before. This is NOT news, move on *********s.

 

The President himself is on RECORD for supporting the pipeline. I thought you wanted to remove our dependence on foreign oil!

Democrats=They don't know what they want. It must frustrate the President himself at times, when we say the "party of no", Democrats have to be included in that.

 

It absolutely IS news. Let's explain how Business would work if this wasn't Washington.

Let's say I had a Contracting Company "X" and there were plenty of bids for my services, but before looking at any of them I immediately go to my pal(who ends up being the least qualified no less) but even assuming this friend was the most qualified to do the job, it's still a conflict of interest.

I'd get fired!

It's something else too, something the Founders explicitly moved against in the 19th century: A Monopoly(the ACA sets up the same thing for insurance companies by the way, whether government run or not. All Citizens *have* to participate). Monopolies corrode the market, increase the pricing and kills competition.


This isn't political, a government engaging in this manner is a national disaster.

 

hmm I thougth Keystone was Canadian oil??? Hate to break that news to you!

 

Canada is as "foreign" as Mexico is to the U.S. I think it would be beneficial to have an economic merger. Better us than Britain which is across the European Sea.

Our border by contrast is a mere few hours.

 

So you are wrong is what you are saying.

 

Unlike you prehaps, I despise the Crony Capitalism of both major parties. Now try and deal with the actual thread instead of crying and whining that "BUSH DID IT TOO".

That sounds like the little punk boy that is upset he got in trouble for bullying little kids, because hey, their are other punk bullies that did it too.

Grow up.

 

Seriously? I'm saying calling Canada a "foreign nation" is a joke. It might as well be a part of the union, the same can be said for Mexico for better(or for worse). Let me dumb it down for you even further:

Canadian "foreign oil">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Middle Eastern Foreign Oil.

Get it?

 

So let me get this straight. A company that was assigned a job wanted to make sure it had its job, and that somehow Michelle Obama has something to do with this? They donated money because they wanted money, not because Michelle Obama knew him.

 

[1] It's NOT the private sector, it IS Washington/government!!!

[2] The very conservative SCOTUS has deemed it constitutional, you need to move on old chum.

 

You're correct that Obama is for the pipeline if it can be done without harming the environment. So he demanded they do all the necessary studies to ensure that it does little to no harm etc. I live in NEBRASKA and this is a hot topic in these parts. Regarding Canada: Israel is more akin to our 51st state more so than Canada, but I'll concede with you on Mexico.IJS

 

Just another coincidence , I'm sure. 4 Companies submitted bids.....3 immediately hit the trash can, not even being looked at... so they wouldnt get in the way of Michelle O's college friends bid.

It's kind of like Affirmative Action. When you make the choice that the "best" will not come before a superficial quality (in this case friendship), you might not get the best results. It's clear to see that this was the case here. A failed rollout, and alot of wasted money going with the college buddy.

Maybe they should have looked at those 3 unconnected bids, as their bids were riding on their actual qualifications, and might have been a better choice.

 

Plausible dependability? It's my understanding that the USG has for some reason been doing business with this (*)(*)(*)(*)ty company for decades. I mean let's investigate, maybe a cousin of Barrack's works for Lockheed Martin and we can pretend like there's some shenanigans going on in how they are building planes for the USG while Obama is POTUS to.

Oh, I know, 35 years ago, the same people who forged Obama's BC also put this business arrangement in place for the day Obama got elected . HAHAHA

 

They're(or they should be) held to the same account, to the same standards. If not higher. This isn't even a valid excuse, it's a violation that cannot be excused. One in which as a Liberal you didn't excuse Bush for, so you shouldn't excuse your lame duck of a president for it either.

No one needs reminding about how insolvent the Supreme Court is, largely because it's "conservative" in the first place. Nor should it be "liberal", it should be a non-biased, non-opinionated court that follows the rule of law to the letter. What kind of politically aware America would give this Court the time of day? The same Court that didn't take up DOMA in 1996, decided to take it up and rule it "illegal" on what grounds? The "guarantee" of fairness?

In which case, they should have mandated that civil unions be treated as marriages, but marriage in of itself is a State right and cannot be violated as such. DOMA was passed by the Senate, or that is the representatives of the States. Thereby the States were executing their 10th Amendment rights inside government.

Citizens United is also equally as shameful to the Court's now tarnished beyond repair record, I want to abolish the Court. In fact, it's in our national duty to do so.
The Court can't uphold the constitution, it can't even consistently uphold its own rulings. So even though the ACA violates the Commerce Clause and even though taxation without representation was one of the main reasons for the rebellion in the first place, they "legalized it".

The Court is a sham to me, it doesn't matter who's on it. As soon as they're "politically aware", they're no longer qualified as Judges.

To sum up their miserable failures and the reason in a sentence: The SCOTUS, if it's to exist at all must exist in the same component as our soldiers. Politically unaware or politically silenced, only to carry out their duty.

 

First off, you helped make my point, little punk boy. That was my point, that merely (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing and pointing out something as stupid as, "Michelle Obama had a classmate" that did this contract makes no difference. One, she wasn't involved in the (*)(*)(*)(*)ing hiring process, and saying as such is stupid. Two, it doesn't even say they were friends, just that they graduated the same year.

This thread is retarded on it's face, and only fools believe it's worth a (*)(*)(*)(*) to even mention. Sorry you were too slow or inept to read through the lines. I'll dumb it down for you more next time, since it's obvious that you can't follow along at regular speed.

 

Please do go on.

 

I SERIOUSLY doubt that this friendship played into the continued relationship between this company and the USG, but you're correct, they are friends. One would think that we would be smart enough to have rules in place forbidding this kind of thing, if for no other reason than to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

 

And I'll gladly concede my point, but that doesn't change the fact that Michelle Obama had absolutely no role at all in deciding who got that contract. Unless you can provide some other link that shows her on record as making that decision, this belongs under conspiracy theories.

 

Suggesting that she had "no roll" is equally speculative. It certainly does not defy credulity that as the president rolled out his health exchange model, that Mrs. Townes-Whitley may have called Michelle on the subject. They are friends of the Obamas. Friends of Obamas that get a no bid contract to build a website that balloons to somewhere around a billion dollars, and fails.

Just smacks of coincidence to me too. These guys are tin foil brigade...

 

No, it's not, because there is absolutely no evidence at all that even implies that the FLOTUS has any decision making power in this situation. There is no evidence that says either Obama or his wife even knew who submitted the contracts. In fact, the only information about this that I can find at all is on crackpot websites. theblaze, newsmax, dailycaller, et. al. Which goes to show that the relationship is barely even acknowledged.

...oh, and it's "role". That's the word I used.

Do you know what Mrs. Townes-Whitley does for CGI? Can you please explain to me how she would have reached out and requested the contract? Do you have any evidence at all that this is true? Do you have any evidence at all, in fact? Anything? Nothing? A picture and a bunch of crack pot posts? Ok. Thanks.

Evidence? Source? Anything outside of 1 picture (Shall we go over how many people have pictures with the POTUS?)

She didn't get the contract. CGI had already been used in the White House under Bush, they had history helping the white house with technical matters. "She" didn't get the contract either. She didn't receive an increase in pay, there's no evidence to support her getting a bonus. Nothing, just pure speculation.

Yeah, of course it does, because you want it too. This is blatant confirmation bias at it's finest. You've started with a conclusion (The two are connected) and looked at only tiny bits of information connecting the two.

This is speculation at best, and it's thin.

 

Good catch on role.


The ACA was signed by Obama at the end of March 2010.
Towns-Whitley joins CGI Federal as a Vice President about a month later.
That picture is from Christmas 2010, which they spent with the Obamas.
The no-bid contract was awarded in September 2011.
Towns-Whitley has been visiting the White House personally and professionally according to logs throughout this process, including 4 professional visits this year... so yeah... she is all up in it.