Is Glenn Greenwald trying to save face?

[JDPriestly]

38. I'm with Greenwald on his criticisms of Obama.

I too believed the Bush administration's lies when Colin Powell presented bogus information about WMDs to the United Nations.

I did not see Powell's speech. I only heard it on the radio on my way to work. And I saw nothing in the MSM at the time caused me to question the fabrications that Bush presented to justify his war.

At that time, I naively thought that no American president could be so vile as to lie about WMDs just to have an excuse to invade another country. I knew that Johnson had lied prior to the Viet Nam War, but knowing the state of communications and information at the time, I thought it was probably an error and an overreaction, not a knowing lie.

The fact that I fell for Bush's lies is what makes me scrutinize much more carefully what I hear from my government and the American media -- whether it is from Obama's administration or from the Republican opponents of Obama.

As long as our government is keeping so much secret from us, as long as the media prostitutes itself and repeats the government lies in order to confuse me and the rest of the public, as long as the need to protect National Security is an excuse for lying and hiding the truth, I will not trust any American government unless they prove that they are telling the truth. We have just seen one lie after the other and all of those lies have caused disaster to the American people.

Obama should know that many, many Americans feel as I do and should make a bigger effort to be honest. Before he was elected in 2008, he promised transparency. Where is it? He could and should change a great deal more if he wants people to trust him.

Of course, we have no alternative but to vote for Obama. And I will not just vote for him. I will work to get him elected. But I will continue to state my opinion openly -- that Obama needs to make his administration far, far more honest and transparent.

I can't say much at all about the Walker illegitimate baby story. I never thought there was much to it, but then there have been so many similar stories that turned out to be true. Time will tell.