From Whitehouse.gov
Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history
The Obama administration is so transparent that reporters can’t even ask about transparency.
The “transparency” in the Obama administration means sometimes a question can’t even get asked.
The discovery came today at the daily White House news briefing with press secretary Jay Carney, who responded to a request to be allowed to ask about the president’s positions: “I’m not going to take your questions.” Ironically, Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House and the No. 2 reporter on the White House beat, had wanted to ask about Obama’s openness.
“In the Washington Post, the president of the Society of Professional Journalists wrote of the Obama administration, ‘Reporters’ questions often go unanswered. When replies are given they frequently are more scripted than meaningful. What is the White House response to this?” was what Kinsolving had wanted to ask.
He hoped to follow up with, “This Washington Post column also quoted AP’s report that ‘the Obama administration even censored 194 pages of internal emails about its open government directive.’ Is the AP wrong in reporting this?”
But Carney, who had gone down the first two rows of the press gallery today allowing questions, skipped over Kinsolving when his turn arrived. And later when Kinsolving interrupted to ask to be allowed some questions, Carney refused.
Note: A “Carny” is a person who works in a circus.
And those pesky FOIA requests?
The current administration, challenged by the president to be the most open, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bush did.
Obama is blocking the FOIA requests through DHS: the Department of Homeland Stonewalling
Obama administration appointees in the Department of Homeland Security purposely stonewalled Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by journalists and citizens, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. This disclosure comes days before Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is to hold an oversight hearing on the agency’s handing of FOIAs — including the claim that information requests were vetted for political reasons.
Over at The Hill Sam Youngman said that Obama’s use of signing statements is completely consistent with his promise not to use any signing statements. Within a day I bet we see Sam explaining that opacity is completely consistent with transparency.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Dr.J, that last paragraph is great.
Although, I’m still trying to figure out just how issuing signing statements, that disregard portions of the legislation he just signed, in effect, doing an “end run around congress”, is consistent with stating that he wouldn’t issue any signing statements that do an “end run around congress”. Maybe a liberal can help explain to me how I’m mistaken in thinking that that is hypocrisy. Doubtful that they could help me, but I’d be willing to engage in such a discussion.
Community organizers are use to telling stupid people what they want to hear.
Transparent means you cannot see what I am doing
Obama is open and transparent if you listen between his lines. He has said he wants a civilian police force as strong as the military, gas prices will skyrocket, spreading the wealth is a good thing, we should not drill in new places, and that businesses and the wealthy should be taxed at much higher taxes than they are paying now.
In other words, he is saying, let me run your lives for you and things will be better.
@johngalt: You said:
C’mon now john. Be patient, I am sure Greggie or little dickie wheeler will set us silly Conservatives straight on this issue.
@anticsrocks:
I will give Greg credit, in his retraction within an earlier post topic weeks ago, on Obama’s signing statements. There is no doubt in my mind that Greg is a much more upstanding individual than Obama, and I respect him for that, and at least he is willing to engage in discussions on issues, rather than issuing statements, like Obama does, which basically tell conservatives, “I WON!”
@johngalt: In that case John, you give Greggie much, MUCH more credit than I do. I have tried to engage Greggie in real, thoughtful discussions, but he never concedes the point when he is shown to be wrong. He merely switches the topic to some other issue that he can demagogue.