President Obama said recently his administration is the most transparent administration in [American] history. Do you agree or disagree?
Obama makes Nixon look like saran wrap.
I don't see how on that one, actually. Watergate and the Pentagon Papers were pretty serious swings. Not to say that this President is the most transparent, but he's certainly not the worst for transparency. I'd say he's fairly....well, typical for our day and age.
Obamacare and the lead up to the legislation, that was a pretty damn huge closed door thing. And close after making the promise of transparency too.
Wouldn't you expect that for big legislation? Battle it out in two different fashions: one in public, the other in private. Try to use the former to influence the outcome of the latter.
No, especially not when transparency was such a huge campaign promise. If fact that's precisely where he promised the transparency would come about in government - no closed door meetings.
In order to make that call, one would need a clear understanding of how transparent Zachary Taylor's administration was. I, for one, have no idea. More transparent than Bush? Certainly, but that's not difficult. More transparent than Jimmy Carter? Than Rutherford B. Hayes? Than Calvin Coolidge? Who knows. It's a meaningless boast.
President Obama said recently his administration is the most transparent administration in [American] history. Do you agree or disagree?
You didn't actually want to hold him to that, did you? It was something to get the angry Democrats on board. It's self-defeating, for any party, to conduct the entire process in front of the public.
The most transparent was John Adams. Why? He didn't hide his despotism; he silenced free speech openly.
And no, it's not self-defeating to hold public business in front of the public.
He kept the XYZ affair pretty close to the chest
Fine, how about Andrew Jackson? He openly defied the Constitution and murdered a good amount of Cherokees.
Fairly open, but he didn't exactly spell out to everyone that he was taking his political advice from friends instead of his cabinet.
Fairly open, but he didn't exactly spell out to everyone that he was taking his political advice from friends instead of his cabinet.
Well, with anyone else do we even have that evidence?
Don't quite know what you're asking.
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