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Obama gets openness award in private
AP/WorldMag ^ | Mar 31, 3:55 PM EDT | ERICA WERNER

Posted on 03/31/2011 1:06:51 PM PDT by quantim

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama accepted an award for making the government more open and transparent - presented to him behind closed doors with no media coverage or public access allowed.

The discrepancy between the honor and the circumstances under which it was delivered bothered open-government advocates in attendance, they said Thursday. They were even more perturbed when they discovered later that the meeting hadn't even been listed on Obama's public schedule, so there was no way for anyone to know about it.

"To have such a meeting not be transparent is the height of irony. How absurd can that be?" said one participant, Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, which keeps tabs on the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: award; grifterinchief; obama; openess; transparency
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To: quantim

That’s funny too!


21 posted on 03/31/2011 1:20:53 PM PDT by Red6
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To: quantim

LOL! Love the picture on the wall.


22 posted on 03/31/2011 1:20:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

OK, I read the article. It was JOURNALISTS that gave the Usurper this award.

That answers my question. It WAS from brain dead liberals.

And - funnier still - they got no news from this made for the news event?

Ha ha ha ha!!!

This is terrible! I think everly news agency in the world ought to cover this. This is an OUTRAGE!! Why, everyone knows the Obama Regime is the most open and transparent in all the history of all they world.

Why, Obama ought to pre-empt prime time tonight in formally accepting this kind and gracious award. He deserves, it!

I think he and TOTUS could speak for an hour or so about how open and transparent they are. After all, JOURNALISTS have said so!


23 posted on 03/31/2011 1:21:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: quantim
Here's the award he got:

24 posted on 03/31/2011 1:22:39 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: quantim

I would have thought that he was the only one there.


25 posted on 03/31/2011 1:22:39 PM PDT by RC2
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To: AngelesCrestHighway




Yes, it's a popular theme!
26 posted on 03/31/2011 1:23:17 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: quantim

I think it’s time for the Nobel Prize Committee to make Obozo the first person in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize twice in a row!


27 posted on 03/31/2011 1:23:43 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: fuzzybutt
The irony is so thick it is ironic.

It's ironic that liberals don't get irony even when they engage in it. They need irony supplements in their diet.

28 posted on 03/31/2011 1:25:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well in 585 days he will be planning his POTUS library in Chicago, maybe we’ll see the plaque then. It’s probably made of something opaque, too.


29 posted on 03/31/2011 1:25:49 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Cicero

Well considering there is talk of taking his first Nobel Prize away for bombing Libya, that would be some feat!


30 posted on 03/31/2011 1:27:27 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Red Badger
Oh, but they did....and it's a BEST SELLER today...

31 posted on 03/31/2011 1:33:43 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: quantim

ROTFLOL What a joke. They think this will make us mad. No; because we know why they are doing it. What it will do is show what mind numbed fools they are.


32 posted on 03/31/2011 1:34:26 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Red Badger
Also, published in 1848

33 posted on 03/31/2011 1:34:57 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
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To: quantim

“...the most open administration in history...”

/sarc


34 posted on 03/31/2011 1:46:58 PM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: quantim

Outstanding. It’s getting harder and harder for satirists to beat this administration to new heights of absurdity.


35 posted on 03/31/2011 1:58:38 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: quantim

Obama is not normal.


36 posted on 03/31/2011 1:59:20 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Cicero

I would actually like to see him be the first person in history forced to return a Nobel Peace Prize because of fraud....


37 posted on 03/31/2011 2:17:07 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: quantim

This is the season for April Fools jokes. I wonder if this story was planted by Media Matters in the hopes that conservative groups would run with it. I never heard of the source.


38 posted on 03/31/2011 2:37:20 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Red Badger

“Winning The Future” and “Kinetic Military Action”. The guy is a joke.


39 posted on 03/31/2011 2:42:42 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: Tempest

No joke. I’ve heard Rush talk about this. This is a result of his plunging popularity. If his popularity was soaring to meteoric heights, Obama would be bragging about it in a nationally televised address.


40 posted on 03/31/2011 2:45:49 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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