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Does anyone remember how Obongo denounced the Bush administration for having held "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House and how he pledged pledged to usher in a "new era" of openess. Well, last week he met secretly with coal executives to discuss "clean coal" policies. Freedom of Information Act requests for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives were denied by thew White House because "the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged 'presidential communications.'". Whatever.



I just saw a story on this. Instead of attacking Bush on specific issues related to with-holding information, it seems Odumba made a bunch of cutesy and naive statements on "sunlight being a disinfectant" and how "transparency can cure so many ills".

So now that his job is more than just to run his mouth, he's around people who actually have some understanding how the presidency works. Those glorious speeches on how he was going to rejuvenate the planet, the transparency thing is just another example of how he had no idea about what he was talking about. But, he sure did sound good saying it.

They had a bunch of examples. One of them being Odumba's decided the White House guest list is a state secret. Not to be released to the public.