It seems Obama's "Open Government Dialogue" has been done in by transparency.

I have frequently visited and participated in Obama's website dedicated to increasing "transparency" in government, "Open Government Dialogue/Making Data More Accessible". But of late, it seems the fine people over at The National Academy of Public Administration have been completely overwhelmed with, of all things: a call for transparency.

It seems they were not prepared to actually deal with "legitimate" questions about Obama Long-form Hawaii birth certificate. To date, this question has pulled far more votes than any other proposal, much to the chagrin of the website authors.

Their solution, break up OGD into individual web-page topics, call it by a new name, and require log-ins. One being: Open Government Initiative Discussion Phase: Transparency Principles. Strangely, to date, I have seen very few requests at this new site for Obama to reveal his real birth certificate, so much for "transparency".

Correction: There is now one post requesting the President to fess up. I will let you know if they take it down.  By the away, I agreed with the post. I wonder how long my respose-post will be allowed to stay up. I will keep you all informed. But so far, they have posted this question, although they have never answered it.

It's now 12:27 pm  and they have already taken the post requesting Obama's birth certificate down. It was only up for about 15 minutes. In addition, they left no notice of their action. This is pure government censurship and a definite abridgement of the poster's 1st Amendemtn right to free speech.

I don't expect my post to last long either....I'll keep you informed!

          ex animo

          davidfarrar