Comments on: Transparent Intentions

By: Misty

Misty — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:48:13 +0000

I felt like my trust in government was completely shot – and hopeless. I still feel a little like that, but I think that Obama is doing some things to regain my trust. There’s a great essay on restoring our faith in democracy and the steps that Obama would need to take to really engage the listening of the public in an essay called “Capturing Democracy’s Surge” in the new book Thinking Big. A bunch of progressive policy think tanks are behind the book, very impressive list of groups. Anyway, after reading this I realized that transparency is what I NEED in my government – and no Obama isn’t doing that 100%, but compare whitehouse.gov to how it was during the Bush administration…

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