06-06-2009, 10:50 PM
I can't: I've started to giggle and gurn every time I hear him, particularly when he's being serious (read "pseudo-candid"). Even funnier are the reverential intros to his backslidings on the British media. On Radio 4's Today programme - take a bow James Naughtie (BAP stalwart) - every day is now officially brown nose day. I strongly suspect this is going to become a real problem for America's favourite neo-con.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Is irony even the word for this? The president created a new online "open government" system in which people were free to brainstorm and vote proposals up or down. Far and away the leading proposal in the category of "Legal and Policy Challenges" as of the scheduled end of brainstorming was End Imperial Presidency.
You can still find it, but it's been removed from that category and from the list of all proposals. Unless you have the direct link to it, you cannot find it, and when you do you can no longer vote for it. It has a label at the top with a closed lock and the words "pending moderator approval." When voting was scheduled to end on the 28th, this proposal was at the top in its category and ranked #3 over all.
Then the Open Government announced that it would keep the brainstorming open until June 19th and not begin Phase 2, involving discussion of the brainstormed ideas until June 3rd. So, voting continued, and "End Imperial Presidency" moved up to second place over all. And here we are on June 3rd, and the proposal has been removed from the running.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node?page=3