Amazing Difference: Obama vs Bush

[dan foster]

The very first Executive Order from Obama is:

Presidential Records
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/

This is significant as it opens access to present and former Presidential records and revokes Bush's Nov 2001 Executive Order (13233) that tried to limit access.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13233


What was Bush's very first EO coming out of the gates?:

Number 1 - Establish the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.

[Sandy Eggo]

I was reading about this yesterday. Apparently he wants to "change the way the government interprets the Freedom of Information Act" to make information public rather than finding ways to withold information. I think it's a good step in the right direction, because it'll help the people hold the government more accountable and hopefully the government, in turn, will be more honest.

It seems Obama and our country had a really good 1st day.