Obama Only Dem Candidate To Pledge "Google Government"

Washington Post's The Trail:

It is one of the unlikelier alliances in the 2008 presidential campaign: what possibly could bring together Barack Obama, Sam Brownback and Ron Paul? The answer: the highly ambitious, if infelicitously named, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.

The act is meant to bring average Americans a kind of Google for the federal government, an online search engine that will allow citizens to look up any company, organization or other entity receiving federal contracts, grants and earmarks. The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Bush last year, but some of its supporters charge that federal agencies are already dragging their feet on its implementation.

Read the whole story: Washington Post's The Trail

Comments

[mrman]

BaROCK THE VOTE! This man is so far ahead of the other candidates...
GO OBAMA..WE ARE NOT AFRAID. WE WILL WALK WITH YOU INTO THE LIGHT OF CHANGE!

[Gabrielle]

YOU GO OBAMA !!
NOTHING TO HIDE????
WHOAH....

HILLARY?
EDWARDS?

[SeanGardner]

In fact, to date, he is the only Democratic presidential candidate in Congress to release the details of his recent earmark requests.

Not Dodd. Not Hillary. Not Biden. OBAMA!!!

I wonder how the Obama bashers will spin all of this.

[Richandler]

Go Obama! That's really all I have to say. There are so many reasons I like him as a candidate. Transparency! Finally!

[projectaristotle]

This is really remarkable. Open source government. I would love to see a wiki you could update with suggestions for laws being passed, or be able to call out earmarks in the usual pork barrel bills we see.

[RusStyles]

Where are all the Obamahobes? Let's hear you put a negative spin on this...I'm confident you'll come up with something