FINALLY we get something that resembles ‘transparency’ out of the Obama Administration. Over the weekend accounts of the minute-by-minute actions of President Obama and his administration were posted for all to see just as he promised. There it was for all of us to see. It was the handling of the Haitian earthquake by President Obama.
From the beginning when President Obama ran to the microphones to tell us what he was going to do for Haiti I felt like we, the American people, were being played by Obama and his people. This is the same President Obama who took months to decide what to do about Afghanistan and DAYS to respond to the Fort Hood attack and the Christmas Day attempted attack on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam. And those turned out to be initially the wrong responses. That’s why I felt the Haitian response was more than a little contrived. Obama was at the microphones in a matter of hours and the response was right down the line – almost like Bush was back. It was way too good to be coming from this group in Washington.
All President Obama had to do was take out the President Bush template for the tsunami in Southeast Asia – including having two former presidents head up the American end of the relief effort – blow the dust off it, add the Haitian name to the file and call up the military. The American military then swung into action and the rest was on autopilot. After that it was just a matter of Obama running around with his sleeves rolled up looking concerned and giving more speeches. THAT part of the plan was pure Obama – the BS Factor.
To me, it felt like Obama’s people already had the plan sitting on the shelf where they put it after Dick Cheney handed it to them, all they were waiting for was a disaster so they could shamelessly trot it out and call it their own. They knew the media was in their corner, so all they had to do was get the ball rolling. They certainly are willing to blame Bush for everything that has happened in the country, but I doubt they will give President Bush the CREDIT he deserves for having the template already set up for them to follow when a disaster hits.
So now that we know the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Washington actually know the meaning of the word ‘transparency,’ can we expect the same level of openness for the legislation they will try to push through Congress this year? Or any other year? How about going back and giving us the minutes from the backroom meetings held on The Hill to push through the healthcare travesty? Or the bribes that had to be paid out to our senators and representatives to get them to go along with the bill their constituents are overwhelmingly against? For some reason, I doubt it.
There are no other instances of moves made by this administration they are proud enough to share with us. It’s that simple. We are looking at a well-scripted stand-alone instance of the ‘transparency’ the American people were promised – and it is a show. Just more broken promises – oh, and out here in the heartland outside the Washington Beltway, we call those LIES.
From the beginning when President Obama ran to the microphones to tell us what he was going to do for Haiti I felt like we, the American people, were being played by Obama and his people. This is the same President Obama who took months to decide what to do about Afghanistan and DAYS to respond to the Fort Hood attack and the Christmas Day attempted attack on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam. And those turned out to be initially the wrong responses. That’s why I felt the Haitian response was more than a little contrived. Obama was at the microphones in a matter of hours and the response was right down the line – almost like Bush was back. It was way too good to be coming from this group in Washington.
All President Obama had to do was take out the President Bush template for the tsunami in Southeast Asia – including having two former presidents head up the American end of the relief effort – blow the dust off it, add the Haitian name to the file and call up the military. The American military then swung into action and the rest was on autopilot. After that it was just a matter of Obama running around with his sleeves rolled up looking concerned and giving more speeches. THAT part of the plan was pure Obama – the BS Factor.
To me, it felt like Obama’s people already had the plan sitting on the shelf where they put it after Dick Cheney handed it to them, all they were waiting for was a disaster so they could shamelessly trot it out and call it their own. They knew the media was in their corner, so all they had to do was get the ball rolling. They certainly are willing to blame Bush for everything that has happened in the country, but I doubt they will give President Bush the CREDIT he deserves for having the template already set up for them to follow when a disaster hits.
So now that we know the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Washington actually know the meaning of the word ‘transparency,’ can we expect the same level of openness for the legislation they will try to push through Congress this year? Or any other year? How about going back and giving us the minutes from the backroom meetings held on The Hill to push through the healthcare travesty? Or the bribes that had to be paid out to our senators and representatives to get them to go along with the bill their constituents are overwhelmingly against? For some reason, I doubt it.
There are no other instances of moves made by this administration they are proud enough to share with us. It’s that simple. We are looking at a well-scripted stand-alone instance of the ‘transparency’ the American people were promised – and it is a show. Just more broken promises – oh, and out here in the heartland outside the Washington Beltway, we call those LIES.
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