Obama Closes Doors on Openness

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  • Posted By: Binthere222 @ 06/22/2009 6:28:39 PM

    Dear Newsweek,

    Thank you for an article which raises questions about obama and his team of carter appointees + political science grads.

    It is too bad that you did not run such a titled article when the obama team BEFORE the election when he and his team were stonewalling the world on things as basich as his birtyh certificate and school records indicating national origin.

    Or for that matter when his street thugs were filing false voter registrations.

    It appears that now, all his complaints about bush from gitmo to the budget to openness and everything else were just campaign lies and he is really worse in these areas than his demonized predecessor.

    Well, they really pulled the wool over your eyes !!

    But what else would you expect from a "community organizer" who has never held an honest job in his life.

  • Posted By: RattStone @ 06/22/2009 5:53:26 PM

    Yep, Obama Hussien Barack has closed door meetings with Energy Companies, and Bada-Bing Bad-Boom gas hits $3 bucks a gallon.

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 06/22/2009 6:12:32 PM

    Obama tosses trillions of dollars into rat holes, but insists he inherited a 'bad economy." Obama is ACORN's Boy Plunder. that is as transparent as it will get! Next comes document shredding! maybe some private consultations with America's only living impeached President. just to get some advice.
    We had better keep our nation's health care and insurence industry out of this guy's hands! Money saved is MONEY SAVED! Money spent is not money redeemed!

  • Posted By: Fernadez @ 06/22/2009 4:11:51 PM

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    In the closing weeks of the presidential contest, the GOP harped on the prediction that President Obama would be tested in his first weeks in office. Who knew the test would come not from the Taliban in Afghanistan, but from the Taliban in Washington? President Obama is about to pass that test. The experience will arm him for his next engagement with the Taliban Republicans.

  • Posted By: malikk @ 06/22/2009 4:02:47 PM

    you believe the nerve obama just sent me a email f8ck u obama i dont like you any more
    thats what i would say in a email to him

  • Posted By: GoldsteinD @ 06/22/2009 3:44:14 PM

    it's the Chicago way. this slick guy sold most people to vote for him. just another politician

    • Posted By: Fernadez @ 06/22/2009 3:52:38 PM

      Hello Can anyone help help me,Where's Chicago is?Its near the Russian Boarder?

  • Posted By: GoldsteinD @ 06/22/2009 3:41:52 PM

    it's the Chicago way

  • Posted By: Outraged_Patriot @ 06/22/2009 2:58:09 PM

    My Obama is not performing as promised....Who do I call for a refund?

    • Posted By: Uday Salizar @ 06/22/2009 3:03:45 PM

      Is call Sarah Palin help desk. Is tell you to reboot maverick, by golly, you betcha.

      • Posted By: Outraged_Patriot @ 06/22/2009 3:07:44 PM

        Hooked on Phonics, Uday..."Spell Like a Rapper" just isn't working for you. But it explains your response. izzle.

  • Posted By: Outraged_Patriot @ 06/22/2009 3:05:10 PM

    I understand some your frustration...The polish is starting to wear off, and your unqualified manchurian puppet is being shown for what he truly is. If only more media would take him to task for his lies, half-truths, and empty promises instead of being his lapdog. Time to dig deeper. Where is his birth certificate? How did he travel to Pakistan? Who paid for his college education? Why is his Selective Service application on a form generated in the 90's?

    And why has he spent over ONE MILLION DOLLARS in lawyers to quietly hide the answers? When will the media pick up those stories?

  • Posted By: TxnByBrth @ 06/22/2009 2:58:38 PM

    It is very interesting to watch the newbies and kiddos react upon their realization that their Obama is not only a pacifist/Marxist/socialist but he 'lies'...LOL...from the git-go this, the most unqualified person to ever run for the office of POTUS...he's the most incompetent person to ever win!!!

    • Posted By: Uday Salizar @ 06/22/2009 3:02:55 PM

      Is make James Buchanon cry. Is read history book. Is Bush and Obama is not in same league as dumb ***ing presidents in 19th century.

  • Posted By: Uday Salizar @ 06/22/2009 3:01:45 PM

    Is so many angry American here. Is "conservative" angry for lose election. Is "liberal" angry for "conservative" say same thing about Obama that "liberal" say about Bush. Is both stupid, is "liberal" get "news" from Newsweek, is conservative get "news" from fat *** on talk radio. Uday think is good thing none of you vote make any difference, is American too fat in body and in brain for make any real decision for Policy, yes? So Uday is sit back, watch dumb*** Americans argue for stupid *** that make no difference for anything. Is "meet the new boss, same as old boss".

  • Posted By: malikk @ 06/22/2009 2:57:05 PM

    ay pogi just check out who obama has in his cabinet there all members of tri lateral commision or bilderburgs or the council on foriegn relations how many members from labor and progressives groups does he have i think one hilda solis just one
    we didnt even no this this guy till 4 1/2 years ago and how did he get to give the keynote address in 2004 thats usually reserve for someone famous not some little known state senator from illinois ask your self that questions do some investigation on him who supports him ie george soros check him out then you will see who realy own obama

  • Posted By: malikk @ 06/22/2009 2:46:45 PM

    i see folks still calling obama a socialist HELL like bill maher said he is not even damm liberal
    yes where was newsweek and your sister rag washington post last year you suppose to be the 4th estate hope you both go out of business we dont need you

  • Posted By: jilliangood @ 06/21/2009 1:50:39 PM

    Right you are Carolynr. Plus the fact that he telegraphed before the election exactly what he is. To Joe the Plumber: We are going to redistribute the wealth" Right out of the communist manifesto. Then in an interview he said that he would tax utility companies using coal in to bankruptcy. This will add $3,800.00 per household per year to pay utility bills. Then he started firing all the white guys, and closing all the white owned auto dealerships. He will ration health care to white people. He hates us, hates America, and is well down the road to being a dictator. This is what "that one" is, Only welfare recipients will vote for him again. He is a communist racist. It is not hard to figure out what that meeting was about. He told them they were through.

  • Posted By: rugrunner @ 06/22/2009 10:22:56 AM

    I think Hitler released a "transparency" memo too. It"s always the guy who screams how honest (or qualified, concerned, not racist, etc) he is that isn't honest at all. I shouldn't be surprise we learned nothing from the Germans as they learned nothing from the Russians.

    • Posted By: chris s. @ 06/22/2009 2:26:46 PM

      You "think" Hitler did that? Go ahead and fling anything out there and see if it sticks. Is that how it works? You've painted yourself in a corner and now you bring out the Hitler card. Sad!

    • Posted By: Vigilance @ 06/22/2009 11:13:17 AM

      These comments comparing Obama to Hitler only make your side look exceedingly foolish and reaffirm my support of Mr. Obama, now and in four years as well. I will never vote for a party so irresponsible as to compare a man who simply supports larger government than they do to a man who gave direct orders to murder roughly six million people and indirectly aid the deaths of millions more on the battlefield. Your sense of perspective is shot.

  • Posted By: Pete Kent @ 06/22/2009 2:24:51 PM

    Obama is a lying hypocrtite. He has fooled the left as much as he has fooled the right. he is an authroitarian seeking to dominate the government for his own shadowy, perverse ends. unless the liberal media wakes up to his duplicity we will continue to suffer his tryanny.

    petekent01 (on twitter)

  • Posted By: Iam3rd @ 06/22/2009 2:13:22 PM

    Putting aside the hard-to-follow thread about giving the President a chance to succeed or fail, I think it is fair to call him out for blatantly continuing the mistakes of the past. I don't see transparency with U.S. citizens as a perk. It should be a requirment for elected office.

  • Posted By: Debunked! @ 06/22/2009 1:40:17 PM

    When was Obama ever transparent? This article has got to be a joke! Mr. Isikoff, are you honestly just now beginning to ween yourself off of the koolaid?

  • Posted By: scrubjay @ 06/22/2009 12:43:42 PM

    POOR POGI is the typycal lost liberal nocontributing type and not capable of doing anthing acceptfor him/her self... Like all liberals,socialists,democrates,fascists,media,politicians etc: POGI's have no abilities of their own. Sad but true these POGI's exist on the backs of intelligent, creative hard working freedom conserving contributors to our great county.....! POGI's blame everyone else for greenhouse gas and yet the are the biggest and most odius source of the follish idiology.... POGI's(HMM?) POLITICALY ODIOUS GULLIBLE IDIOTS...... POR POGI's

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