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	What happened to Obama's promised tranparency?

redbourn

8-16-2009 6:47 AM

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obama, transparency, secret meetings, closed door deals, sunlight before signing, posting bills online, new york times, petition

redbourn says:

It's hard to find an article about an Obama meeting that doesn't have the words, "private", "secret", or "behind closed doors" int it.

Is this what Obama meant by "transparency" ?

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8-16-2009 8:28 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Transparency? Maybe he meant that things like the torture memos will be kept *invisible* to us. Or things like going after the war criminals and profiteers of the previous administration; I *don't see* that happening either. Or perhaps he means, that it is just SO *transparent*, that's he's just yet another keeper of the status quo. Yeah, that must be it. .

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