Moving The Goalposts (prepare yourself for Obama Fatigue)

[phantom power]

Somerby tells us today that over the week-end the gasbags believe that because Obama said his staff didn't have any inappropriate contact he opened himself up to charges of being evasive. (Seriously)

Today we hear from the Politico that if Obama doesn't release the content of all the emails and phone calls, he will still be under suspicion. Apparently, there is some rule which says that transition documents are not subject to FOIA requests, something which good government groups find appalling and which the press is seizing on in advance as some sort of sign that the Obama team is stonewallikng --- even before they issue their report. Typical stuff.

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this won't be finished once Obama does what they all said he had to do in order to finish it. Each revelation "raises more questions," goalposts are moved, new angles explored. There's never any resolution.

And more and more people begin to just "feel" that something untoward must have happened. After all, where there's smoke there's fire, right?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/moving-goalposts-by-digby-this-was.html

[NJmaverick]

1. Politico has made it crystal clear they are an anti-Obama website

and that they will abuse and misuse their reputation and reporting, to try and take the man down.