Amazingly, a frequent commenter actually posted this (presumably with a straight face):
Obama set a standard for his administration that no other president has even tried to meet, and fell short of it, while still offering more transparency than any previous administration.
Josh Earnest (I still can’t believe that hired someone with that name for the job of presidential spokesman) repeated it.
But really, as Glenn notes, picking the biggest whopper of the Obama era is a tough task. I guess they’re operating on Goebbels’ Big Lie theory.
Poor Jim, Obama isn’t even honest with the visitor log. People visit and are not included on it. The administration claims that people on the list are being confused with other people of the same name and all kinds of nonsense.
The claim of transparency has led the Obama administration to find ways to skirt their own goals in order to keep meetings secret, as we saw with lobbyists and other people who would cause the administration problems in the media. But at least Obama said he would be transparent, which trumps his opaque actions.
Poor Jim, Obama isn’t even honest with the visitor log.
Yep
Poor Jim indeed…this last paragraph is especially destructive to Jim’s World View:
“The White House agreed to release the data — known as WAVES records, for Workers and Visitors Entry System — only as a result of settling a lawsuit.And the Obama administration has taken the same legal position as its Republican predecessor on the subject of whether the data is covered by the Freedom of Information Act. (They say no.)”
It’s telling that when Jim repeats pablum he reads, he never does the least bit of checking. If he did he would see he does not have the facts.
Obama is completely transparent. Those of us who’ve paid attention have been able to see right through him since 2007. The would-be Emperor is naked. He’s an empty pair of Mom Jeans with delusions of adequacy.