Wednesday, August 12, 2009

something is fishy alright

I usually will not have the time to post a new blog everyday, but since this is a short one, and as I have a little time to spare, I thought I'd share a few thoughts .

This email address provided by the President to the public to forward "fishy, misinformation " regarding Health Care has created justifiable concerns with the public.
The first concern is the Oval Office's credibility. If the Executive Branch has concerns that disinformation, irregularities, misinterpretations or wrong information is being disseminated about Health Care , the President has several easy, logical options. The first is merely to have a person email the question without having to turn in a name , website or email account. The Public Affairs section , the Press Secretary's Office, or a number of other office's should be linked for the concerned person. In fact, the President should have a link with the bill(s) attached so the reader could see for himself what the real bill says. Now that might be a problem as the President has not drafted one, the Senate has 4 and the House has 1, and there are revisions being worked on as I blog.
The second is to have a public information commercial. There is plenty of money seemingly available for everything else.
Third, the president has the power of the bully pulpit.
Fourth, send out a mailer will a positions point. I seem to have had an endless supply of flyers during the campaign.
Fifth, have a telephone campaign. see above.
Sixth, create a hot line. Surely with as many telecom jobs that have been sent over seas there is a plethora of available, talented,experienced phone people available. They are always available around dinnertime it seems.

Yet, the president seems to take the most illogical way to respond, especially in light of how much his campaign relied on hi tech, up scale, hip 21st century electronic methods during his campaign.

the shadowy side to all this is the ability to record, track and secretly amass info off the Internet by persons unseen and unknown to the person turned in. the right question becomes, who is collecting this info? as we have learned anything about this president, he is a great "organizer" . He has more organizations at his disposal than can be imagined, and many are interlinked. Some are reputable, some shadowy and elusive. Some such as ACORN seem to be flaunting the law.

Mr. President, yes, something fishy is occurring. The REAL the questions are... where is the transparency in your actions? where is this info going? Who is storing it? For what purpose? will you notify those who have been involved? will the public have access to this list under freedom of information? will you destroy this list after the vote?

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