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Obama fails to disclose transition meetings
suntimes.com via Drudge ^ | December 29,2008 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 12/29/2008 6:48:40 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

WASHINGTON -- The Obama team, pledging the ''most open and transparent transition in history,'' gets and ''A'' for disclosing donors to the Jan. 20 inauguration and a ''F'' when it comes to revealing transition meetings with groups. Contrary to its own ''seat at the table transparency policy,'' meetings are not posted on a Web site.

I'm giving a ''B'' to the Obama transition report on staff contacts with Gov. Blagojevich. The report was a summary narrative released last week of an internal inquiry into Gov. Blagojevich's selling-of-a-Senate seat scandal. While the Obama team deserves credit for disclosure -- including that President-elect Barack Obama and incoming White House staffers Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel met with federal prosecutors -- offering some notes or transcripts to support the conclusions would have been helpful.

During the presidential primary campaign, then candidate Obama, still an Illinois senator, made a pledge I heard for the first time on Oct. 24, 2007. In a school gym in Dover, N.H., Obama said if president, he would post his meetings on the Internet. That was interesting to me because Obama's Senate staff had been very selective about what Obama Senate-related meetings they disclosed and seemed to be guided by a ''less is best'' policy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; blagojevich; bleepgate; deceit; emanuel; obamafiles; obamalies; obamatransitionfile; obamatruthfile; rahm
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1 posted on 12/29/2008 6:48:40 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

You’ve got to be kidding me.


2 posted on 12/29/2008 6:52:08 AM PST by The Anti-One (So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Yea, riiiiight!

Just like the recently released Obamaloon internal studies showing that his troops, er - people, had no contacts with the Illinois gov.

This guy is gonna make Nixon seem honest.

Check that - he already has.


3 posted on 12/29/2008 6:52:11 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

Stalin...not Nixon.


4 posted on 12/29/2008 6:53:44 AM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

What does he get for transparency on his disabled credit-card campaign contribution scam?????????


5 posted on 12/29/2008 6:55:34 AM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
I'm giving a ''B'' to the Obama transition report on staff contacts with Gov. Blagojevich.

A "B"? I think a lower grade is in order for lack of bibliography, references, or sources. Maybe an "A" for chutzpah (or comedy) for producing a self-serving report.

6 posted on 12/29/2008 6:56:48 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Transparent as aluminum..............


7 posted on 12/29/2008 6:58:11 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: The Anti-One
Who in their right mind other than the richest prince in the world and probably al quaida would donate to the Obama Inaugaral Committee? Obama is wasting so much money to crown him the liberal lyin king.

Go here and look at the donation button on the right.

8 posted on 12/29/2008 6:59:31 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
I'm giving a "B" to the Obama transition report on staff contacts with Gov. Blagojevich.

How can she give a grade without knowing for certain the accuracy of the report?

9 posted on 12/29/2008 7:00:55 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: The Anti-One

Obama gives me the creeps beyond any politics.


10 posted on 12/29/2008 7:02:13 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Oh, come on now Lynn ... you’re not seriously going to hold the O-child to his campaign promises are you? Just what part of the main-stream media do you think you are? Didn’t you get the memo? /semi-sarc


11 posted on 12/29/2008 7:03:25 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: Da Coyote
This guy is gonna make Nixon seem honest.

But it will never be reported.

12 posted on 12/29/2008 7:04:16 AM PST by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: Red Badger
Transparent as aluminum..............

As transparent as say....his birth certificate?

13 posted on 12/29/2008 7:09:42 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (President Bush has let me down! Palin in 2012!)
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To: Bushbacker1

That’s made of UNOBTANIUM.................


14 posted on 12/29/2008 7:11:58 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Bushbacker1

Just one more thing he’s keeping in the closet.


15 posted on 12/29/2008 7:15:11 AM PST by aruanan
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
...and I noticed that the majority of the MSM is all over this story, right?? RIGHT?!?

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Obama again works out on Marine base

Oy. :-( (READ MY SIG!!)
16 posted on 12/29/2008 7:15:49 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

17 posted on 12/29/2008 7:31:17 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Whenever a lawyer uses the word “clearly” lying is soon to follow

Whenever a Democrat hack uses the word “transparency” you know it’s that last thing they have in store for you

Dems like to talk to their “constituencies” via buzz words. They have their voters trained like Pavlov’s dogs. So the word “transparency” is used by 0bama to elicit a reaction from his easily hypnotized masses


18 posted on 12/29/2008 7:36:28 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: george76

This morning’s radio show had a chuckle. Someone proposed that the Illinois motto be: “Our governors make your license plates!”


19 posted on 12/29/2008 7:39:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Blagojevich Lawyer to Submit Obama Report to Panel
Fox News | Monday, December 29, 2008 | AP
Posted on 12/28/2008 11:49:13 PM PST by malkee
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20 posted on 12/29/2008 7:47:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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