Busted.
(Daily Caller) — President Barack Obama has placed some of his friends — nearly 200 of them — in high places.
iWatch News reported Wednesday that roughly one-third of appointments made by Obama were either bundlers who paid out at least $50,000 to the president’s 2008 campaign or spouses of these high rollers.
Nearly 80 percent of the bundlers who raised at least $500,000 ended up in what the White House described as “key administration posts,” the report found.
But, according to the White House, Obama has been completely blind to hiring candidates who donated money to his 2008 campaign.
“The president made clear that he would make political appointments, as every president before him has, but we have enacted ethical standards and levels of transparency that are unprecedented,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday upon the release of the report.
Carney said the White House stands by every appointment that’s been made.
The iWatch report, however, claims that Obama is not standing by the promises he made during the campaign.
When Obama launched his campaign on Feb. 10, 2007, iWatch reported that he was quoted as saying, “(The lobbyists, special interests) write the checks and you get stuck with the bill, they get the access while you get to write a letter, they think they own this government, but we’re here today to take it back.”