The Most Transparent Thing About Obama is His Lack of Transparency

Exclusively using a private email server as secretary of state is perhaps illegal, but if not, we undoubtedly can agree that it's wrong and downright stupid. Hillary Clinton's judgment is clearly analogous to that of a liberal tweaking Chuck Norris's nose and then calling him a pussy. It's stupid and it's going to get you hospitalized with only Obamacare to depend upon. Good luck.

But the Obama administration has stepped away from Hillary on this latest scandal and as "the most transparent administration" in the history of the United States, wants to get to the bottom of this.

So, is the Obama administration the most transparent one ever to grace the White House?

The answer is clearly: hahaha hahaha NO!


Josh Gerstein wrote about President Obama's "muddy transparency record" in POLITICO (3/5/12), which as of today has not changed. Katherine Meyer, a Washington-based attorney said, "Obama is the sixth administration that's been in office since I've been doing Freedom of Information Act work . . . It's kind of shocking to me to say this, but of the six, this administration is the worst on FOIA issues." Ms. Meyer has been doing FOIA work since 1978, she is not a newbie. 

"This administration is raising one barrier after another . . . It's gotten to the point where I'm stunned--I'm really stunned," she added.

Gerstein goes on to show how the administration has been fighting tooth and nail to fight FOIA requests and how they have gone after whistleblowers and alleged leakers.

Then we have Obamacare and Jonathan Gruber. The lack of transparency in the healthcare law is not seen by him as a problem--it's a feature. The law was written in "a tortured way" on purpose to make sure the Congressional Budget Office did not categorize the mandate as a tax.

Was Mr. Obama being open and transparent about the cost of Obamacare? You can keep your doctor, period.  He even lied about his promise to put the health care negotiations on C-SPAN. 

On September 12, 2008,  Obama promised that he would not raise taxes on the middle class and the poor. 

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250 thousand a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

It only took him 3 months into his term to raise the cigarette tax, and studies show

that poor people are more likely to smoke than rich people.

Is the president being transparent in the secret negotiations with Iran? His and Michelle's sealed school records? You don't seal your records if you have nothing to hide.

When he knew the truth about Benghazi, was he being transparent to the American public, or did he lie about the video along with all the other liars in his administration?

Was al Qaeda on the run, practically decimated, and did he know the truth or was this just another political maneuver to score points in the polls?

Were his "off the record" meetings with lobbyists an indicator of transparency? In June 2010, The New York Times reported about hundreds of secret meetings in cafes near the White House, to keep the names of the lobbyists out of the registration log kept there.

How transparent was the Obama administration about the Beau Bergdahl outcome in his court martial?

The Obama list of lack of transparency deals is endless. There's Solyndra, Fast and Furious, his relationships with questionable characters like Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, and the Muslim Brotherhood, to name a few. And what's the real story about him and Valerie Jarrett?

Our government is growing like a fungus and we need to curtail its growth before we find ourselves living in a socialist nation. That isn't what our nation is founded upon, and that political philosophy has never worked anywhere near as successfully as our form of government has, which is why our country is the greatest country ever to exist on this planet. 

Period.

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