November 10, 2008

BERIA SLEEPS LIGHTLY TONIGHT:

A Change in the Changes on Obama’s Web Site (Adam Graham-Silverman, 11/10/08, CQ)

On Nov. 7, global health advocates noticed that some of the details of Obama’s “fight global poverty” statement had been removed. Specifically, the site no longer promised to fully fund debt cancellation for the world’s poorest countries or provide the full U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. [...]

By this morning, all of the issue-specific pages on the transition site had been removed from the agenda section. In its place, a statement that mentioned details but provided none at all: “The Obama Administration has a comprehensive and detailed agenda to carry out its policies.”

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 10, 2008 9:29 PM
blog comments powered by Disqus
« THE PECULIAR THING ABOUT HIS BRAND OF "HUMANITARIAN"...: | Main | THE U.R. WAS THE CABANA BOY, BUT MAVERICK IS NO BUSH: »