OPEN GOVERNMENT? MAYBE LOCALLY BUT NOT POTUS

We hear candidates for president promising "open and honest" government, like the words are fused together.

I contend it is possible to have a president conduct an honest administration.

It is, however, no longer possible to have open government at the leader-of-the-free-world level. POTUS' security people keep him away from interactive situations. POTUS' advisors do their best to keep him away from contrary messages (this is not necessarily sinister, just how it is.) The prez, despite his or her best intentions, is gonna be in "the bubble" and shielded from RW experiences. Nixon liked it. Clinton fought it, but basically lost. It is necessary for shrubbie's governance. He could not stand interactive exposure, given his level of stubbornness and the influences he must satisfy.

I'll give you honest as a possiblity. Open has been off the table since Kennedy was shot, maybe before.