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President Obama: We've got your accountability right here!
polarik.blogtownhall.com ^ | 01/24/09 | Polarik

Posted on 01/23/2009 10:15:12 PM PST by Polarik

Before the election, and all throughout his campaign, Barack Obama claimed that "secrecy dominated government actions in the Bush administration," and that Bush "ignored public disclosure rules by invoking the state secrets privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court."

Mr. Obama, no one, but you, knows more, and has done more, to abuse the legal system as a Presidential candidate and President-elect, to get cases regarding your Constitutional eligibility thrown out of court on technicalities, and not on their merits.

Where is the openness you promised?

Your Campaign website touted how you would not "sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days." Does that include any of your non-emergency Executive Orders, such as funding abortions in foreign countries, and closing Gitmo and other places to hold terrorists?

Mr. Obama, you promised on your website that you would "amend executive orders to ensure that communications about regulatory policymaking between persons outside government and all White House staff are disclosed to the public." To whom has the White House spoken on the outside regarding the EO's you signed this week?

What about the $875 billion "stimulus package," aka, massive political payoff? Will it always be tagged with the "emergency label" no matter how long it takes to pass?

Obama also said that he will "shed light on all earmarks by disclosing the name of the legislator who asked for each earmark, along with a written justification, 72 hours before they can be approved by the full Senate." So, when are we going to hear exactly to where this $875 billion is going?

Obama pledged on his shiny, new Change.gov websore...er, website, that he will "Open up government to its citizens, by using cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens." OK. I just sent you an email asking you to reveal what you and the Supreme Court discussed in private. I also sent a letter to the NSA, FBI, and CIA to see what information they collected on you in order for you to get your security clearance.

While you're at it, Mr. President, since you continually cracked on Bush for making the "release of Presidential records more difficult," will you, in the spirit of your commitment to transparency, openness, fairness, and accountability, now provide all American citizens with the valid, concrete proof that you're a natural-born citizen and Constitutionally qualified to be the President?

That's not asking too much, is it?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accountability; ayers; bho44; bhorecords; chavez; commie; foia; obama; transparency
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Don't hold your breath...
1 posted on 01/23/2009 10:15:13 PM PST by Polarik
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To: Polarik

Very good comments questions and thoughts. It’s too bad no one on both sides will tell the truth regarding a very simple question.


2 posted on 01/23/2009 10:30:43 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty
"he will "Open up government to its citizens, by using cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens." "

If one pays attention to the platitudes coming from the White House, he will soon have quite a list of the "brush off prases."

The most common excuse is "If my decision was a mistake, the people will let me know". That is a reference to his blackberry by which every American is supposed to be able to talk to The Obamessiah.

Or, the opinions from the minions come through replies to any of the myriad e-mails sent daily to the Obamazombies.

He used the ploy when asked how he could approve a lobbyist the day after he said his administration would hire no one who had lobbied within two years. "If it is a mistake, the people will let me know."

yitbos

3 posted on 01/23/2009 10:45:35 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Polarik; Calpernia; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; ...

Thank you, Polarik. Good article.

Ping.


4 posted on 01/23/2009 10:56:34 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Polarik

“Hey! Shut up!

I won!”


5 posted on 01/23/2009 10:58:27 PM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: Polarik
...will you, in the spirit of your commitment to transparency, openness, fairness, and accountability, now provide all American citizens with the valid, concrete proof that you're a natural-born citizen and Constitutionally qualified to be the President?

No (see executive order at link)

6 posted on 01/23/2009 11:04:43 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LucyT; Polarik
...I just sent you an email asking you to reveal what you and the Supreme Court discussed in private. I also sent a letter to the NSA, FBI, and CIA to see what information they collected on you in order for you to get your security clearance...

SCOTUS. NSA. FBI. CIA...and not one of them can be counted on to protect the Republic?

7 posted on 01/23/2009 11:05:16 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks; nw_arizona_granny

Granny has been telling us for years to believe the Communist Manifesto. She posted a condensed list several years ago, but I don’t know where to find it and she isn’t around anymore.


8 posted on 01/23/2009 11:17:02 PM PST by LucyT
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To: bruinbirdman

LOL I thought the people were letting him know. His blackberry must be turned off.


9 posted on 01/23/2009 11:30:24 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Polarik; LucyT; Calpernia
Double speak rules, Ron. The FOIA is obsolete, Sunshine laws are passé and common American English language definitions and usage is racist. The change we've all been waiting for has come to America.

Speech is a privilege unless it's dissent, which is a right, and truth is expendable, fungible and manipulable.....depending on what the meaning of 'is' is. The common copula definition of 'is' has been expanded inventively.
10 posted on 01/23/2009 11:35:44 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: Polarik

That scumbag better just hurry up with my tax cut.


11 posted on 01/23/2009 11:39:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: LucyT

Is this what you’re looking for?

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/node/644


12 posted on 01/23/2009 11:57:38 PM PST by dianed
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To: dianed
So far...doing a bang up job Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
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13 posted on 01/24/2009 12:19:38 AM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: Polarik

EXCELLENT POINTS.

Probably ‘watering one’s self’ in the wind . . . but excellent points.


14 posted on 01/24/2009 12:34:07 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: bruinbirdman

One phrase he can’t use today is, “It’s above my pay grade”.


15 posted on 01/24/2009 2:37:54 AM PST by Does so (This is a good time for PATCO to go on strike.)
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To: LucyT
"Granny has been telling us for years to believe the Communist Manifesto. She posted a condensed list several years ago, but I don’t know where to find it and she isn’t around anymore."

I just went to look for nw_arizona_granny who has spent years researching terrorists and news stories and the like since we started TM in 2003. Not to mention she is an elderly woman who lives in a trailer in the desert sometimes without heat and FR was a lot of her day to day work to have something to do.

This is what I found............and let me say with all the other cr@p that's posted on FR why can't there be a thread with recipes, Carlo3b used to have one along with others.
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Spamming FR
From Admin Moderator | 12/26/2008 6:39:01 PM PST read

Please **quit** spamming FR with the recipes...

Simply post the links. There’s absolutely no reason to post the content if you post the link to the content.

It’s wasting FR resources...

Thanks,

AM

16 posted on 01/24/2009 4:22:38 AM PST by WestCoastGal (If we will hold the course, God in Heaven will raise up friends to help fight these battles.P Henry)
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To: Polarik

What happened to any media questioning this missle strike in Pakistan?

WHERE is the transparency????? WHAT was the reasoning?

Or was it just provocation.


17 posted on 01/24/2009 4:29:21 AM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: Polarik; Ernest_at_the_Beach; nutmeg; neverdem

FYI and Ping Lists


18 posted on 01/24/2009 8:10:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals or foriegn or domestic terrorists or both?)
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To: Smokin' Joe; LucyT
This EO was created to allow Obama and the Dems to go after Bush in an effort to charge him with "crimes."

They don't know it yet, but it's going to blow up in their face as soon as any action is taken to reveal information in Bush's records. The same type of records from the Bush Administration that 0's legal team seeks to disclose to the public and the DOJ, will then be subject to disclosure for Obama's Administration.

19 posted on 01/24/2009 8:34:06 AM PST by Polarik ("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
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To: Polarik

20 posted on 01/24/2009 8:45:09 AM PST by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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