Posted on 12/11/2008 8:09:30 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama's Transition Website Censoring Questions About Blagojevich By Noel Sheppard Created 2008-12-11 10:54
President-elect Barack Obama's transition website Change.gov [1] is censoring questions offered by readers about disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Although the "Open for Questions [2]" page was launched Wednesday stating "The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you," readers have been quick to shelter the president-elect from inquiries relating to Blago.
I guess this is change you can believe in.
As reported [3] by Politico's Ben Smith:
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions [4]," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.
The Blagojevich questions -- many of them polite and reasonable -- can be found only by searching words in them, like "Blagojevich," which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
You really gotta love it. What are some of the questions being censored?
"Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will 'serious' campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?" asked Metteyya of Santa Cruz, California. "This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate," reads the text underneath it.
Also removed as "inappropriate":
"In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?", a question from "lupercal," of Gainesville.
And: "Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama's top aides?", a question from Phil from Pennsylvania.
I'm sure media outlets who regularly carped and whined about secrecy and lack of transparency in the Bush White House will be aggressively reporting this revelation, although I wouldn't hold my breath.
He’s transparent alright. LOL
Change the website and Hope no one notices.
Only NOW there is shock over his deceptive performances that have been obvious to so many for two-plus years?
His socialist agenda that he's denied but supported in many radio interviews, his lies about his associations with William Ayres, Saul Alinksky, and anyone else unsavory, anti-American, or just a general ruthless thug, his plan to bankrupt the coal industry, his desire to have no government military but a total volunteer military (much like Hitler had with Germany's youth), his closet smoking, his concealment of school and birth records and college clubs, his wife's appointment to a lofty 6-figure position when he was Senator, his lavish home sold to him for a song from criminals... it's so comical that the Liberal Drive-By Media is flabbergasted and only now seeing that the emperor has no clothes.
Stop smoking the goofball weed already and I'll bet more could be reported on by unemployed journalists.
There's plenty of work that they could do to further dig up and expose more truths about the ugly, lawless underbelly of Chicago politics, where Obama was weaned and raised.
This is more than a mere "distraction," as so many in Obama's camp are trying to portray it.
Hey Zer0, are you hanging in there with the big boys? How's the smoking and facial tics coming along? Enjoy your ride. The fun is just beginning.
It’s not just his website that’s changing.
Any news stories talking about 0bama meeting with Blago have been scrubbed.
0bama = SSDD.
Same $hit. Different Dick.
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