oh, ya

I believe David Gergan about politics. Isn't he an historian? I'm pretty sure I saw him on C-SPAN history programs. He always makes sense to me. I don't trust the politicians about politics. Or, rather, I don't necessarily believe what they say. They're obvious partisians and it's their job. They're supposed to be partisians. That's their job. They're elected to represent their party's ideas for their constituancy. As much as possible. I guess.

Let's see. Obama promises transparency, yet has several policy meetings scheduled that are closed to the press. Economy and foreign policy. Does it really make sense to tell the press everything all the time? What does transparancy mean to Obama? What does it mean to the press? This is from Anderson Cooper's show.

It's always important to define your terms and clearly establish perameters.

How helpful is it for anyone to know how those meetings go? If the press were there, would they do their normal meeting stuff in order to get stuff done? Would they be conscious of the eyes of the world on them and just place nice guys, or posture for the public or something?

I'm not sure what the reporter meant exactly, except he connected those two things - transparency and closed meetings.

Don't governments have state secrets and stuff? Don't people yell and bitch and snore and stuff that isn't part of public behaivor in meetings?

That's how celebrities live. Eyes and notebooks always pointed at them. Everybody needs privacy to function.

Ah. People are pissed that they didn't hear about something that happend in December until January. Should they have heard earlier? It's the IRS nominee guy, I think. 3 or 4 weeks is too long to wait? They knew before the appointment. People have to know, do, have everything right away. No patience. I hear Americans have no patience.

If you tell people there's a problem, they go to town analyzing it without any information. It's a lot of guesses. If you have the information, they can debate that instead of assumptions and personal interpretations. Or at least fewer of them. We're doing that with Carolyn Kennedy right now. We don't if she pulled out of the senate thing or not yet but are discussing her reasons and what it means and stuff. It's probably the 24 hour news cycle or something. The push for news.

But some people may be sure there's a cover-up by delaying the release of information about the appointee guy. How would I know one way or another? It's always who do you trust with politics. And what are you willing to believe to get what you want. It's hard. Often.

So I don't believe politicians much and just hate politics. It really does work for me.