Is Obama creating a precedent for transparency the autocrats will have to follow?

[Hortensis]

6. Liberals always up and down their game. We're not

the only ones in it. This is a very fluid, complex and imperfect world. When the ball fields tilt vertical, everyone has to kick from that position and expect a lot of the balls to come down on top of them, not way out in front as desired. Electorates especially are extremely imperfect, and large numbers always make stupid and immoral decisions.

Personally, when I think of how earnest liberal politicians who devote their lives to battling to protect and advance our democracy are kicked around by people who imagine they are more principled but don't even realize what that is and who constantly betray what they claim to be their own principles, I don't know how principled politicians get their strength to continue. Many quit. I do know they'd all be on their knees begging for good sense and probity in the electorate if that'd only work.

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill