I have a lot of respect for obama and his transition team and their willingness to put up a website so people can communicate directly with the government-elect. However, i find it pretty sad that the thought police are already busy scrubbing away any questions about Blago.
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.
The Blagojevich questions -- many of them polite and reasonable -- can be found only by searching words in them, like "Blagojevich," which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
this is the "change" we need right?
more obfusciation and orwellian head fakes?
i know this is not what team obama is about. i wish he would take the bull by the horns on this one and order a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this crap so we can get back to the business at hand (saving the planet, providing economic equality and sustainability, and universal healthcare)