Brin: Obama closes curtain on Transparency

More brilliance from a one-term president:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obama-closes-curtain-on-transparency-468557-100595914.html

President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated 
to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a 
partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of 
disclosure by government and politicians.
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Bauer's own words -- gathered by the diligent folks at the Sunlight 
Foundation -- show disdain for openness and far greater belief in the 
good intentions of those in power than of those trying to check the 
powerful.

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"One of the most surprising things I learned as a young man working his 
way from the hinterlands of a multi-national behemoth into the lofty 
towers of headquarters is that quite simply, they do not know. They are 
too often just frightened people making it up as they go along. Decision 
making too often comes down to verbal acuity, cults of personality, 
tides of emotion, and totemistic tribalism...It is hard to think of a 
better characterization of the Obama Administration than a dysfunctional 
US corporation led by a high profile CEO surrounded by mediocre 
functionaries with enormous egos and retinues, bounded by special 
interests, losing its long-time monopoly status, foundering on the 
unyielding rocks of change. The decline of the Soviet Union redux, writ 
larger."
-- http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

"One criterion to judge any struggle by is the extent to which it gets 
co-opted by those in power."
--Unknown.