Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The media may be finally waking up to the unkept promises

At least one major media reporter, Michael Isikoff of Newsweek, has noticed that the Emperor Messiah has no clothes, at least when it comes to his oft-repeated pledge of "transparency":

"Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, 'nothing has changed,' says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. 'For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies.'


The hard line appears to be no accident
. After Obama's much-publicized Jan. 21 "transparency" memo, administration lawyers crafted a key directive implementing the new policy that contained a major loophole, according to FOIA experts."
(Emphasis mine)

Just one more example of the many times that President Obama has condemned one of former President Bush's policies during his campaign, then turning right around and keeping it in place once he was comfortably in the Oval Office. We don't think that's the "Change we can believe in" his supporters had in mind when they swallowed the Messiah's unique line of bull.

"Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss" - The Who

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