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

Yes, but it's humanitarian bombing.

41 posted on 03/31/2011 2:46:05 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: Cicero
Yes, but it's humanitarian bombing.

I believe the term is, "humanitarian chemo-kinetic events."

42 posted on 03/31/2011 2:52:40 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Disambiguator
I thought this was another satire article by John Semmens.

These are the days when reality is worse than satire.

43 posted on 03/31/2011 3:16:02 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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