So much for Obama press openness

Glenn Greenwald, near the bottom of this column, shows Team Obama already lining up sycophants in the media on Gitmo and civil-liberties related issues, among other things.

And, on one of those other things, Just.Another.Politician.™ may even been looking at cutting Sociable Security bennies, and even has Ezra Klein bamboozled. Or maybe Ezra did it to himself.

Add to that either a clusterfucked level of disarray, a Gen-X sense of noblesse noblessitude amongst press office staff, or a combo of the two, and you really have fun.

MUCH more on that from David Johnston. A WH press office staffer saying – not asking – he’s going off the record? And, on the first phone call? And, over just being asked to spell his name and give his job title?

And, Jack Shafer details how Team Obama is already pulling another page from the Bush playbook – using anonymous folks for backgrounders at pressers.

I already am getting more and more confirmation for another Green presidential vote in 2012, or Socialist, if I have that option.