Religion, Sex, and Politics

The following exerpt is just one of a number of stories I could cite that illustrate my well-earned cynicism about politicians. A few of you folks, one in particular, kept asking me all through the campaign season, "Did you watch Obama's speech last night? Did you like what he had to say?"

My standard response was (1) I already know what he has to say, and (2) what a politician says is of little importance.

First, a politician's track record is far more indicative of who they are than their lofty words, and Obama's track record told us everything we needed to know. Second, politicians like our current President will say whatever they think will get them elected, then they will do whatever is best for the consolidation or expansion of their power, rather than what they promised the gullible public.

Hey, gullible public, GET A CLUE!

Here's the article:

Newsweek: Obama Closes Doors on Openness
by Michael Isikoff
Jun 29, 2009 issue

As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies." (article continues)

URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/202875