"Was that a test to see if we were on our feet? I don't do well at test."
Posted on 07/26/2013 11:56:56 AM PDT by mandaladon
Change.gov, the website created by the Obama transition team in 2008, has effectively disappeared sometime over the last month.
While the front splash page 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunlightfoundation.com ...
The above link is to the ‘wayback machine’ which keeps a copy of old websites. This may or may not load the old site depending upon what information it tries to request - but the data is there.
This sends you to the link, http://change.gov/content/home, which then results in the following:
Sorry, File Not Found: 404
Invalid URL /content/home
http://change.gov
I have been thinking the same way for some time now. Something ominous this way approaches and we all seem to be stuck on trayvon or anthony and huma. I guess obama is right about one thing... we aren’t talking about the important things ... such as seal team 6 deaths and benghazi and fake birth certificate and college transcripts and...
The media doesn’t want us to focus on the important issues. The issues that prove Obama’s complicity in matters of treason and dereliction of duty are constantly shuffled under the stack.
The problem is that no shuffling is uniform. Eventually something comes back to the top.
What do you suppose they pay over at the Ministry of Truth?
Would it be a part time job of 29 hours or less per week?
I didn’t archive the web pages, but I kept PDF copies of every page.
That page will not load for me.
"Was that a test to see if we were on our feet? I don't do well at test."
I meant “Animal Farm”, not “Animal House”. I must have engaged in distracted typing.
No, you were right. “Animal House” is they way they treat the “public purse” as they party down — from joyrides in AF1 (remember the NYC overflight?) to the First Wookie’s jaunt to Spain with the huge camp-following and on and on...
Freakin’ Animal House party nearly 24/7...
You mean, I wuz right before I wuz wrong, or vice-versa. I feel like John Kerry.
Try the The Wayback Machine at the Web Archive.
What about the “Wayback Machine” search engine...takes pics of websites over time & shows websites as they were back in time?
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