Blue Collar Muse

One of the biggest criticisms of Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign was he was long on empty rhetoric and short on specific plans.

That shortcoming seemed to be addressed when Obama included an “Agenda” section on hiis transition website Change.gov. It initially looked to be a great resource for determining Obama’s priorities and emphases would be. Indeed, the furor around his announced “civilian national security force” grew when this very “Agenda” page began to explain what it would mean.

The first change to Change.gov was to that “Youth Service” plan.  Obama altered his originally published intentions with a serious rewrite for America’s students. Now, Patrick Ruffini notes via Twitter that the entire Change.gov “Agenda” section is simply gone, replaced by meaningless drivel.

This probably doesn’t mean Obama has suspended plans to drive the country into the ground. More likely it simply means he has gone back to his original behavior of refusing to comment on the specifics of what his intentions are and how he will accomplish them. But we can hope, if only in our hearts, the changes signal a retreat from plans already laid out which thinking people realize are destructive. That would be change we could believe in.

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