Related to this morning's post, I'll cut Team Obama some slack given the initiation phase of dealing with hopelessly stale government technology (as my own recent days at the U.S. Department of Education will attest), but I note with interest this:
Obama's Whitehouse.gov: Frozen in time?
Long story short, the web site isn't exactly receiving updates in a timely manner...even as the rest of Obama's communications operations is consumed with the dizzying pace of the opening days of any Administration.
Again, governing is different than campaigning. And Congress hasn't even started being a real pain in the ass to folks in the West Wing...
...yet.
UPDATE: it appears the White House Press Corps may have at least temporarily misplaced its jug of Hope-n-change Kool-Aid.
Posted by Eric Earling at January 22, 2009 09:28 PM | Email ThisThere are MILLIONS of links to whitehouse.gov out there. On my web site, for example, I link to this video of George Bush's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Pretty much all such links are just ... gone.
I hope they come back.
This may help you a bit:
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/
Posted by: Eric Earling on January 22, 2009 10:07 PMSo much for the campaign promise not to come after the guns.
Posted by: Vince on January 23, 2009 05:36 AMSlow news: I never saw any reporting on the executive orders Obama issued which rescinded several of Bush's. It seems the federal government is back into the business of killing unborn babies.
Bush sealed the Clinton White House records and Obama has just unsealed the last four years of the Clinton Administration.
Elections have consequences. And other than honest elections, true reporting by the Fourth (or is the Fifth) Estate is next on the list to keep government accountable. Ergo, the Obama flubs with communication (i.e. trying to hide things) is big news.
Posted by: swatter on January 23, 2009 07:07 AMThe hate has started. (white guys need not apply for jobs)
And this is one of Obama's advisors.
Jezzz
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 23, 2009 07:25 AMOf course you do Duffman. Your only criteria for public office appears to be whether they have:
A) a uterus and;
B) attractive physical qualities
To hell if she can govern (or in this case represent her NY consituents well), she looks good,right? No wonder this country is headed into the crapper with a voting populous so obsessed with trivial minutia in their decision-making processes.
This is the mindset that got us a pop star instead of a president this November.
#9 (white guys need not apply for jobs)
Shame...shame AM/V, yes I heard it and that's not QUITE what he said. The gist was that he wanted it to be 'all-inclusive'. Put down the beer...it's too early! :)
Obama is the most radical pro-abortion and anti-gun President of all-time. This is sad but not at all unexpected.
This is the man who proposed to ban gun stores from all cities and almost all suburban areas in Illinois, and defended a total handgun ban in Washington DC.
This is the man who said that a newborn child, living and breathing on its own, born as the result of a botched abortion, should be allowed to die if that is the wish of the doctor and mother, because that is respecting their decision to abort the child.
I would be shocked if he did NOT act on these beliefs as President.
Parce words anyway you want, but he said it!
How many "construction workers" do you know that are ALL white.
It was a racist statement from a fool who works for Obama. If any Bush people had even used words close to it. The libs & the MSN would be screaming for weeks!
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 23, 2009 07:43 AMMy guess on the not getting the Orders up immediately is an issue relating to the current state of the Whitehouse's technology and additional hurdles the staff now need to go through.
One final point, let's hope the staff are using proper security on both the live site and the posting process to the live site. I still remember in the Clinton years when the site got hacked because they were cleartext FTP posting to an staging server.
Posted by: tc on January 23, 2009 08:26 AMLOL.. do as I say, not as a do.
Everyday this fool is showing us he has no idea what in the heck, he's doing. The next 4 years are going to be a blast watching the dem's turn themselves inside out. ( Now this is HOPE & CHANGE)
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 23, 2009 10:08 AMAhhhh the Clinton years have returned. (what the meaning of IS again)
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 23, 2009 10:56 AMErr....ummm...how did you find out,then? Did Barry call you at 3:00 am?
Posted by: Dave on January 23, 2009 02:45 PMTransparency? Yeah, about as transparent as a block of wood.
Posted by: swatter on January 23, 2009 02:53 PMIf you look at the Agenda page, you will find a section on Katrina that is blatantly disrespectful of George Bush. A section on defense makes the ludicrously inflated claim that Obama and Biden will together round up all of the world's loose nuclear materials within the next four years, in order to keep them out of the hands of terrorists. How could anyone take that seriously? Which leads me to wonder whether this is a bogus site posing as a .gov . What do you think?
Posted by: PeggyU on January 23, 2009 02:53 PMFunny, I never saw those words on here when Bush was President. Must be some sort of editorial bias. =P
Let's see... Your AG has no problem letting go bombers who kill and people who don't pay tax. (now isn't that funny) Your IRS fool can't pay taxes either and is sorry because he's stupid. Yep tell that to the IRS! Obama says NO lobbyist and the next day hires one.... LOL
So Cato, you all keep yapping about Bush! (-;
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 23, 2009 04:28 PMDo I care? No.
> Your AG has no problem letting go bombers who kill and people who don't pay tax
You are starting to sound like Ragnut, launching into wild conspiracy theories and not making any sense. Next you'll be telling me Obama is a secret Muslim because he didn't retake the oath on a bible.
You've clearly got ODS and the administrations just started. Going to be a fun 4 years, just look at the leadership race for head of the RNC...pure GOP chaos. Who's going to elect a party to power who's potential leader hands out racist material in hopes of getting elected (especially when he's running against Michael Sttele). =P
