Most Transparent Ever!

Obama promised us the most transparent government ever, yet we have gotten the exact opposite from every area of his administration, from the congress and from the Obama as well. When people want to see his original birth certificate, he stonewalls and has armies of lawyers protecting it so no one can actually it. When people want to see his college information, yet more stonewalling.

The democrat controlled congress did almost nothing in open. They were so secretive that they did not even include the republicans in their talks on the health care plan they were determined to jam down our throats. All they would tell us is: "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it!", which of course makes it sound like portions of it were so secret that even they didn't know what was in it. For all we know they weren't even really involved in writing it.

Now we have the issue of the Fast and Furious scandal, again we have the Attorney General stonewalling, lying or at least having a very bad memory. We have the president appealing a judge's ruling that he has to turn over the White House visitors list. We have so much redaction in documents that you can hardly even tell what's in them and the list goes on. Does this sound like the most open government ever?

We have the president involving us in another conflict in Uganda, again seemingly without congress. We have a president telling his people to find some way to administratively get around congress to pass at least practically those things in his "jobs stimulus bill" that he knows congress won't pass. We have another representative suggesting that they need to go to "extra-constitutional methods" to get things done around congress.

Where is the media in all this? Where are those in the news ferreting out the truth, which is their job? Apparently they are nowhere to be found and this includes FOX News to a large degree.

Not only are Obama and his administration covering up all kinds of things they're doing, but the media is helping cover up what's going on. They help provide cover for all the things he's doing wrong. In their minds it seems unthinkable that the first black president should be found to be anything but a shining example of the black America no matter what kind of jobs he's doing. This alone shows that they are not really interested in blacks being treated exactly like other races, because if they did they would be after him just as much as they've been after other presidents yet they have not been after him and have even done all they can to help him spin everything he's done in a positive light.

this is really what we want in either our government or our news media?

When even congressmen have called on the president to explain things to them he simply stonewalls them or ignores them altogether. Worse still the congressmen don't press the issue or call him to account, instead they just let him get away with it and stay quiet about the fact.

I wonder sometimes just how relevant the congress is any more. They have taken steps to do things that are not constitutional or at the very least dangerous to the constitution. This budget supercommittee has no place in congress at all constitutionally speaking. Each step away from the constitution seems to be one more thing lost never to be recovered. The attitude is, "look we made this change and it doesn't seem to have hurt us any." and thus that change stays in  place and they look for yet others along that same line to do. It will not be long before our constitution is no longer recognizable as the one our founding fathers left us.

My question is do we really want 4 more years of an administration that is both corrupt, and that despises our constitution and views it merely as an obstacle to get around?