{"id":6090,"date":"2008-12-11T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2008-12-11T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:34:22","slug":"money-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":"Money in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read over at <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/obama-throws-questions-about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gateway Pundit<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2008\/12\/10\/just-ask-me-245\" target=\"_blank\">Don Surber<\/a> about the Hopey and Changey stuff at the Change.gov website wherein GP linked to Ben Smith at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1208\/Blagojevich_questions_censored_on_Transition_site.html\" target=\"_blank\">Poltico <\/a>who reports that Obama-bots are scrubbing potentially embarrassing questions from the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/change.gov\/page\/content\/openforquestions\" target=\"_blank\">Open Government-Open Questions<\/a>&#8221; page. One of the questions that were scrubbed was as follows;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will &#8216;serious&#8217; campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?&#8221; asked Metteyya of Santa Cruz, California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate,&#8221; reads the text underneath it.<\/p>\n<p>Also removed as &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not as inappropriate as these little merchandising items I received solicitations for last night in my email box from the MyObama campaign;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/calendar.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6091\" title=\"calendar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/calendar-300x257.jpg?resize=300%2C257\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/calendar.jpg?resize=300%2C257&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/calendar.jpg?w=628&amp;ssl=1 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hat.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6092\" title=\"hat\" src=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hat.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess we can&#8217;t expect any campaign finance reform in the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read over at Gateway Pundit and Don Surber about the Hopey and Changey stuff at the Change.gov website wherein GP linked to Ben Smith at Poltico who reports that Obama-bots are scrubbing potentially embarrassing questions from the &#8220;Open Government-Open Questions&#8221; page. One of the questions that were scrubbed was as follows; &#8220;Given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-1Ae","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}