From Politico, another Obama Champion now looking a little funny at their sometime hero realizing, like almost everyone else, they may have been taken for a ride.
Murky report for W.H. transparency
On his first full day as president, Barack Obama promised to usher in “a new era of openness in our government.â€
Then last month, the White House asked government workers to submit suggestions for greater openness — through a website inaccessible to the public.
That’s a bit like Obama’s transparency push, eight weeks into his presidency — lots of major promises and some fairly significant actions, mixed in with a few flat-out dodges…
“What the president said on his first day in office was obviously promising and positive, but there comes a point — I don’t think that we’re there yet, but we’re getting close — where you have to ask whether the reality matches the rhetoric,†David Sobel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said during a conference on transparency last week at American University.
The best way to negotiate through the Obama transparency is being equipped with fog-lights and night-vison googles.
I think the problem is that Obama is confused.
The definitions for “transparent” and “invisible” are not the same.
Perhaps we should send him a dictionary?
My take on it is Obama isn’t confused, Obama is right on is Socialist, Neo-Marxist path to taking down the Free-Market. Please guys, we as Conservatives must put away petty differences and attack Obama at his core right now as a team. I’m a Republican Conservative and actually wrote a Democrat true Conservative Blue Dog Senator. His response was “yes, I understand and we Conservative Democrats are also through with out of control spending and massive power grabs”. I wrote him back and said “Thank You fellow Patriot!”. Now this is Change we can truly Believe in!
The media’s answer to the continually diverging rhetoric and reality, is to slop some more tinting solution on their rose colored glasses. The lefty media is fine with looking the other way, as long as they see the subtrifuge is achieving neo-marxist goals.
It’s when the rich and powerful are being preserved at the expense of the little guy, that the koolade turns sour for the saps that follow along with the marxist and his media. Eventually they go cold and turn on the marxist, and then on the media, that no doubt will try to continue the ruse long after it is obvious to all.
My question to Mr. Sobel, is, how much more time is needed for a decision to be made? Does he think that the current trend is going to change?