BUT HE MUST BE BETTER THAN W!:

Murky report for W.H. transparency (JOSH GERSTEIN, 3/23/09, Politico)

[L]ast 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.

It’s left open-government advocates grateful for what they’re getting from Obama — who is, in their view, miles ahead of the Bush administration — but also left some feeling let down that his often lawyerly actions are falling short of his soaring words.

“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. [...]

Ironically, White House officials did not respond to questions about the transparency drive or the request for openness suggestions.

Erase "Ironically"--insert "Tellingly".

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 24, 2009 10:52 AM