President Obama collected a “transparency award” the other day for his efforts to open the workings of government to the public, but he didn’t exactly shout it from the rooftop. In fact, according to the Web site Politico, it came in a “closed, undisclosed meeting.”
One attendee, Gary Bass of OMB Watch, said he was mystified the White House didn’t allow coverage, given that Obama “was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us.”
In his “PostPolitics” blog, Washington Post writer Ed O’Keefe said it was “as if the president were to thank environmentalists for an award by serving lunch with paper plates and plastic forks that weren’t recyclable.”