As many have noted, Barack Obama’s agenda suddenly disappeared from the government-backed Change.gov website over the weekend. The Washington Times‘ Stephen Dinan reports:
Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.
Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items – everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy – all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.
Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan “to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.”
Vagueness as far as policy proposals go is nothing new to Team Obama. How many times did we Obama surrogates unable to explain what exactly he’d do or what he’s actually done in the past? As The Onion noted in its post-election parody, Obama was able to pull in legions of Americans with phrases as non-descript as, “Yes We Can!” and “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” What can we do and how were we waiting for ourselves? Didn’t matter.
Via Wizbang.
by Stephan Tawney on Mon, Nov 10, 2008