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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: award; grifterinchief; obama; openess; transparency
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1 posted on 03/31/2011 1:06:54 PM PDT by quantim
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To: quantim

I thought this was another satire article by John Semmens.


2 posted on 03/31/2011 1:09:16 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: quantim

If one receives an award and there is nobody around to see it, did it make a sound


3 posted on 03/31/2011 1:09:57 PM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin B)
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4 posted on 03/31/2011 1:10:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: quantim

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.


5 posted on 03/31/2011 1:10:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: quantim

If this isn’t a joke than the world is really sick & needs to ends.


6 posted on 03/31/2011 1:11:19 PM PDT by Tempest (I put money ahead of people)
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7 posted on 03/31/2011 1:11:42 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: quantim

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!


8 posted on 03/31/2011 1:13:30 PM PDT by Twinkie (WHERE'S ALL OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?)
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To: quantim

“War is Peace” Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.”


9 posted on 03/31/2011 1:14:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
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To: quantim

Wikileaks makes government more open.


10 posted on 03/31/2011 1:14:58 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Disambiguator
I really wish that the Obama’s were satire.

The irony is so thick it is ironic.

11 posted on 03/31/2011 1:15:27 PM PDT by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: Tempest

Oh it’s no joke, Rush was talking about it a number of days ago.


12 posted on 03/31/2011 1:15:32 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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


13 posted on 03/31/2011 1:16:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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14 posted on 03/31/2011 1:16:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: quantim

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........


15 posted on 03/31/2011 1:16:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
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To: quantim
Oh it’s no joke, Rush was talking about it a number of days ago.

Yeah, like a month or so ago.

16 posted on 03/31/2011 1:17:32 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Disambiguator


OK, some satire.
17 posted on 03/31/2011 1:18:10 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: quantim

That’s funny!


18 posted on 03/31/2011 1:18:52 PM PDT by Red6
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To: quantim
Welcome to the Bizarro World!
19 posted on 03/31/2011 1:19:42 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Obama has fired more cruise missiles than any other Nobel peace prize winner.)
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To: quantim
Obama is transparent for sure......
20 posted on 03/31/2011 1:19:54 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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