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Obama, Most Secretive President Ever
newsmax.com ^ | January 26, 2009 4:12pm | Scott Wheeler

Posted on 01/26/2009 3:14:42 PM PST by joygrace

The media fawning over Obama never ends. The latest tingly feeling they are getting is over his orders for openness.

The day after inauguration, The Associated Press ran an article with the headline “Advocates Praise Obama Move on Disclosure.” The lead was, “Government watchdogs are cheering President Barack Obama's move to change how open records laws are interpreted as a sign of greater disclosure of agency information than during the Bush administration.”

The article explains, “In the late 1970s, Carter's attorney general, Griffin Bell, issued guidance to err on the side of releasing information. Under Reagan, William French Smith came in and reversed that; he told them, ‘when in doubt withhold.’ Then under Clinton, Janet Reno reversed it again; she told agencies their presumption should be for release.”

Is that so? I don’t remember the Clinton administration’s openness that way at all; in fact, I am still waiting for documents to come back from Freedom of Information Act requests that I filed as a journalist back in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; eligibility; firsthundreddays; ineligible; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamasecrets; obamatruthfile; ocreepy; transparency; zeroworship
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1 posted on 01/26/2009 3:14:42 PM PST by joygrace
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Obama, Most Secretive Failed President Ever

There, fixed that crap...

2 posted on 01/26/2009 3:15:54 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: joygrace

Well, when one has that much to hide......


3 posted on 01/26/2009 3:16:10 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: joygrace
Obama...most marxist president ever. Obama...most secretive president ever.

No surprise there.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

4 posted on 01/26/2009 3:17:10 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Gaffer

LOL — Yeah, my thought exactly.

He is too busy hiding from the press since he now knows they might actually ask him a question.


5 posted on 01/26/2009 3:19:51 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

First president with a governor-sealed birth certificate.
First foreign born president
First marxist-mentored president
Hes running up lots of records.


6 posted on 01/26/2009 3:21:17 PM PST by omega4179 (1.20.13 end of an error)
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I’m refusing to buy any publication, and I mean any (book, magazine, or newspaper) with Obama’s picture on the cover. His image is everywhere. Pretty soon, it’ll be on every street corner, ala those totalitarian countries with those twenty by forty foot photo banners. Anyone else want to join this boycott? I mean it, I can’t stand to look at him. Our compliant and servile press has never been more despicable or irresponsible!


7 posted on 01/26/2009 3:22:29 PM PST by donaldo
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obammy... most gay President to serve... biggest coke-head President... and his mother-in-law owns his arse to boot!

LLS

8 posted on 01/26/2009 3:25:47 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: joygrace

If the obamedia says it it must be true. Easily the most Corrupt administration ever.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance


9 posted on 01/26/2009 3:33:06 PM PST by bray (Time to organize a Rebel Republican Party around Palin)
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To: joygrace

Oldest trick in the book. Say ‘yes’, do ‘no’. Talk big about the great things you are doing, but don’t do any of them, just talk. And when someone questions you just repeat what you’ve already said.


10 posted on 01/26/2009 3:34:03 PM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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He can’t even tell where he was frigging born.


11 posted on 01/26/2009 3:35:42 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: joygrace

Well, surely you recall how forthcoming Bill was about revealing all his medical records, just like the One?


12 posted on 01/26/2009 3:36:46 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: joygrace
You'd have to be secretive, too, if Rush was following YOUR every move!


:)
13 posted on 01/26/2009 3:37:51 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: joygrace

Mr. 0bama is a lying fraud. He has to be secretive.


14 posted on 01/26/2009 3:40:22 PM PST by pallis
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To: donaldo

HA....I go around turning any publication with Bambi’s picture on it.....backwards.


15 posted on 01/26/2009 3:43:44 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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I wonder how we could do a Freedom of Information Act request for any and ALL emails sent from and received on Obammie’s Crackberry?

Betcha there are emails from Soros and Ayers on it???

G


16 posted on 01/26/2009 3:45:38 PM PST by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President!)
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To: donaldo

Oh I saw tons today at WalMart.....I never buy that crap anyway.....And they better not ever put him on Sky Telescope!!!!!!!!


17 posted on 01/26/2009 3:46:12 PM PST by geege
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To: joygrace
Hell, I’m still waiting for the handful of dirt to be released for analysis, that Maddie Albright promised us.
18 posted on 01/26/2009 3:54:49 PM PST by stylin19a (I listen to the voices in my golf bag)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Well, when one has that much to hide......

Exactly right!

Be careful of a Marxist preaching "transparency". Invoking transparency is a way to preemptively dismiss any accusations about secret and sinister actions.
19 posted on 01/26/2009 4:08:29 PM PST by adorno
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To: joygrace

Griffin Bell died earlier this month at the age of 90—I don’t think his death got much attention in the media. Not relevant to Obama’s coronation.


20 posted on 01/26/2009 4:09:39 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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