What? Bush isn’t to blame for everything? Didn’t Obama get the talking points from Kos, et al? This is heresy, how does he expect to get the nomination after committing such blatant heresy?

Not all the nation’s ills can be blamed on President Bush, Democratic candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday as he called on Americans to change the nature of politics and institute more openness in government.
“Part of the problem here is not just George Bush and the White House,” Obama told a crowd of hundreds gathered at a park in Cedar Falls. “We can’t just change political parties and continue to do the same kind of things we’ve been doing. We can’t just go about business as usual and think it’s going to turn out differently.”
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Obama said he would require Cabinet officials to speak to Americans via national broadband town-hall style meetings to discuss issues at their agencies. He also pledged to issue an executive order that information about the government’s operations must be released to those seeking it unless it could harm a protected interest.

I like the idea of more accountability and accessibility of the government agencies but I expect them to do their job without a lot of input from the American people.

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