Please read and respond (change we can believe in?)

Here is a excerpt from a Newsweek article I read this morning.


"As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies."

I know that as a private citizen I do know all the facts that surround those top level decisions and this could be protecting my safety etc. But this really fires me up. DO not ride in on a horse of blame and finger pointing to a previous administration and then quietly pick up their practices and pretend like all is well. I am somewhat dumbfounded by all of this. So far, the change we can believe in should be called, change is only in the name switch. So far only more money spent, less results, and much of the same practices that were blamed during a campaign to acquire the White House. At what point do people ditch the party lines and just look at what is happening and compare that with what was promised. This is where I am curious to see how common America will react to these types of things... blindly following, or time to question...