Remember Candidate Obama? Remember all those lofty promises he made while campaigning for a job that he was uniquely unqualified to hold?

Like the big lie he told in front of millions of people while debating Hillary Clinton, that all health care debate and legislation would be broadcast live on C-SPAN?

Remember that? In case you don’t, here’s a video in case you think we’re taking Dear Leader’s words out of context:

Well, now that C-SPAN has pressed the Obama administration and Congress to make good on that pledge — to allow C-SPAN to air the behind-closed door negotionations between Senate and Congressional Democrats…the administration is handling it like they do nearly every other difficult decision…

They’re voting “present”:

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president’s campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span. Gibbs said he had not seen a letter from C-Span’s Brian Lamb to congressional leaders requesting the coverage and thus could not comment on it.

On Wednesday, Gibbs was asked again about the C-Span commitment. The story had gotten pretty big in the intervening time, and presumably Gibbs had had a chance to familiarize himself with it. So reporters tried for a second day to get him to comment on the president’s commitment to holding televised health-care talks. Gibbs’ answer? “We covered this yesterday.” Gibbs referred reporters to the transcript of Tuesday’s briefing and said, “The answer I would give today is similar.”

But of course, he hadn’t answered the question at all.

Instead of admitting that the President lied during his campaign, and that the entire “transparency” promise was just a as empty as the suit who made it…

They’ll just ignore it and hope it goes away. Which seems to be Obama’s strategy for dealing with nearly every thing.

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OTHERS:

AllahPundit:

There is, and can be, no defense here, and everyone in the room knows it. The point of asking is simply to make Gibbs look constipated — which, of course, it does. In fact, the best he can do by way of an answer is to mumble that The One wants a bill on his desk as soon as possible, an implicit admission that the White House is prepared to sacrifice all its gauzy promises about transparency on the altar of finally ramming this travesty through.

Another Black Conservative: “The thing is the media created this situation themselves.”