March 13, 2010
Who still believes this?
He has never been transparent – ever.
For starters – how many of the white presidents’ birthplaces aren’t known?
Then there’s missing medical (including psychiatric and drug history) and school records and his real past history – not what’s chronicled by him (Ayers) in those automythologies.
Here he actually tries to get away with saying that he didn’t really break his promise about C-SPAN because only the “meetings [he] had with some of the legislative leadership” weren’t televised.
POTUS on You Tube (Feb 1)
Q: Government reform – Warren Hunter in Brooklyn:
How do you expect people in this country to trust you when you’ve repeatedly broken promises that were made on the campaign trail, most recently the promise to have a transparent health care debate?
THE PRESIDENT:
Well, I guess, first of all, I would say that we have been certified by independent groups as the most transparent White House in history. It’s important to understand. We are the first White House since the founding of the republic to list every visitor that comes into the White House online so that you can look it up. People know more about the inner workings of this White House, the meetings we have. We’ve excluded lobbyists from boards and commissions, but we also report on any lobbyist who meets with anybody who’s part of our — part of our administration.
This is such a blatant lie that someone has to finally call him on it. What are the names of those “independent groups” who certified them?
They did not “voluntarily” post the visitors’ names. They were being sued by CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to produce a list of the names of energy people that had visited. The WH claimed executive privilege. Not so said the judge. And the list only starts in September 2009 – long after he agreed to put it up. And then there’s all the other lies – there hasn’t always been “5 days of sunshine” before he signs something and David Axelrod is a lobbyist.
When will the press put an end to his transparency fairy tale?
We’ve actually followed through on a lot of the commitments that we’d made.
“A lot of commitments”?
Name one thing he hasn’t go back on – starting with public finance.
And so Warren is mistaken in terms of how he characterized it.
No he wasn’t, and even if he were, barry didn’t do anything to prove/rebut it.
What is fair to say is that as the health care process went forward, not every single aspect of it was on C-SPAN. Now, keep in mind, most of the action was in Congress, so every committee hearing that was taking place, both in the House and the Senate, those were all widely televised. The only ones that were not were meetings that I had with some of the legislative leadership trying to get a sense from them in terms of what it was that they were trying to do.
Democratic leadership, Sens Nelson and Landrieu, Pharma, unions…Just the fact he tries to cover his lie on C-SPAN is sad. He hasn’t done anything to change Washington – he just whines about it and blame everyone but himself.
I think it is a fair criticism. I’ve acknowledged that. And that’s why as we move forward making sure that in this last leg, these five yards before we get to the goal line, that everybody understands exactly what’s going on in the health care bill, that there are no surprised, no secrets. That’s going to be an imperative. It’s going to be one of my highest priorities.
What percentage of Congress will have read every page of the bill before they vote on it and of those how many will be able to explain it to their constituents?
