From the guy who’s hiding his Birth Certificate, law records, college records, passport, illegally residing relatives, we find that any question that is HARD to answer will not be dealt with.
That fabulous transition website for President-Elect Barack Obama seems to not want to answer ugly? questions. I AM shocked.
Ben Smith of Politico notes that the Obamaphiles have tubed comments relating to the scandal surrounding Rod Blagojevich, and that Team Obama seems happy to let them continue:
President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another’s questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama’s supporters appear to be using — and abusing — a tool allowing them to “flag” questions as “inappropriate” to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama’s website.
The Blagojevich questions — many of them polite and reasonable — can be found only by searching words in them, like “Blagojevich,” which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
MIA questions:
- Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will ’serious’ campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?
- In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?
- Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama’s top aides?
Do I detect some embarrassment over the Blogajevich questions? Grow up Obama, time to be the “real” president is coming soon.
December 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM
It is easier to flag and scrub, that is, to just sweep it all under the rug, when uncomfortable truths come to light.
There is nothing to fear here, than fear itself.
Honesty sure does elicit a lot of fumbling and racking nerves from Oblahblah’s supporters.
News Flash: The king hath no clothes.
December 11, 2008 at 4:15 PM
What a farce “Open For Questions” turned out to be. Another bad idea.