Posted on 12/06/2008 3:43:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama invites Americans to take a "Seat at the Table" Dec 6 06:25 PM US/Eastern US president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday took a cyber-step towards greater transparency and interactive government with a new feature on his official transition website called "Seat at the Table."
The initiative calls for the proceedings of meetings between the Obama transition team and outside organizations to be published on the transition website, Change.gov, and to allow members of the public to comment on them.
"In past transitions, meetings like this have been held behind closed doors," said John Podesta, co-chair of the transition team. "Not anymore."
Podesta, in an email to supporters, said "the people and groups we're meeting with, the subjects of the meetings, and any documents shared in the meetings will now be made available on Change.gov.
"Most importantly, the American public can weigh in with comments or their own materials," Podesta added.
The Obama transition team also outlined the new initiative in a posting on the blog of Change.gov at change.gov/newsroom/entry/seat_at_the_table/ and in a video on the video-sharing site YouTube at tinyurl.com/5asmtp.
"We look forward to benefiting from the many more voices that will now be a part of the decision-making process," Podesta said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We’re invited but we get the scraps.
Think of it as the party you’ve been invited to but the rest of the guests are people you hate.
Will they be discussing the Kenyan birth certificate at the table, or is that not proper dinner conversation...
“Let a thousand flowers bloom, a thousand schools of thought contend.”
Transparency? Does that mean we will be getting a full accounting of the likely trillions already spent and to be spent in January for bailouts? Will we see how much goes to Buffett and Soros? Why do I doubt that will ever happen?
A seat at the table - you mean me? A gun totting religion clinging typical white woman, really that’s just hard to believe.
Law? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
He wants to make his Utopia unavoidable.
Show us your long form COLB Obama.
I won't be eating at your table, ever.
A freeman abhors hand outs.
And I am a freeman.
How many of us are left?
Transparency?????...Alright!.....He's gonna show his “real” birth certificate
This is just a cheap way of doing what Clinton spent millions on: poll-testing every move he makes!
What inane drivel! I don’t think I can stand four years of this.
Maybe he’ll resign to become King of Kenya.
Something tells me you will have to register for this privledge and risk the joe the plumber treatment if they do not like your input.
Nah, I have a throw-away email address that I only use to communicate with my despicable ex-husband. I think Obama qualifies for that same distinction.
Sounds like the host at a sambos
Oh yeah, Chrissie will have orgasms on his show over this...
They probably wouldn’t like my comments!
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going
to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your
isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives
as usual - uninvolved, uninformed.”
— Michelle Obama, reported by The Boston Globe
Pretty accurate.
And I'm sure we are hated with even greater enthusiasm.
WHO is the person who will “release” the info about what happened at these so-called transition meetings??
An Obama spinmeister?
Brit Hume??
Axlerod??
Now, if Obama were to videotape the entire meeting and release it along with audio-tapes.... that would be something new.
If not, this is just a version of Obama releases the story Obama wants.
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