The Joe Show

I have been thinking lot about Tuesday’s historic election, mostly in terms of how open and transparent the White House will -hopefully – become.  I have been using the new site Change.gov as an example of the openess that is to come.  (Change.gov is a site that was put up by Obama’s team and looks to be their primary channel of communication for the Obama Administration.)  In partiuclar, there is a section on that website where you can review any of the President-Elect’s postion on a variety of subjects including the war, the economy, gun control, etc.  Here’s the odd thing:  as of this morning (07:30 AM PST 20081109) the Agenda seems to have been removed with no explanation.  I have been able to find only one other site that mentions the removal, and offer’s a plausible explanation:

…it could be that because of campaign finance regulations, the text from a campaign website can’t be copied wholesale to a 501(c)(4)’s website.

I am not raising the alarm bells here, but I would have expected such a saavy web team such as Obama’s to know better than to simply pull web content without explanation.  (In fact, Obama’s own site has an identical(?) list of issues.)  What’s my point here?  If there is some legal reason for removal of the information, simply state as much.  The absence of such a statement leads to speculation, which in turn undermines credibility, which is something we certainly don’t want to see happen for our Commander-in-Chief, ever again.

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