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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I thought this was another satire article by John Semmens.
If one receives an award and there is nobody around to see it, did it make a sound
Someone gave Øbama an award for having an open and transparent government?
Well, next thing you know, they’ll open up a box of Cracker Jack and hand the Obozo a Nobel Peace Prize.
If this isn’t a joke than the world is really sick & needs to ends.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
“War is Peace” Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Wikileaks makes government more open.
The irony is so thick it is ironic.
Oh it’s no joke, Rush was talking about it a number of days ago.
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.
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I imagine the sheer lunacy and hypocracy of this award embarrasses the hell out of the White House. But what can they do? If they turned it down, the news would leak out and embarrass them even more. If they invited the MSM to cover it, they would be the laughingstock of Leno and Letterman for days.
An award of an open and transparent government? Heh, heh. Must be a brain dead liberal. Or a smart and devious right wing group.
lolol
30 years ago, if someone wrote a book of all the things this ignorant doofus has done, they would have been laughed out of the editor’s office........
Yeah, like a month or so ago.
That’s funny!
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