I’ve repeatedly bashed Barack Obama’s goo-goo tendencies, but this is ridiculous.

An email (PDF) sent to supporters on Friday contains this bizarre promise (my emphasis):

Barack believes that when the government makes a decision that affects your life, you deserve to know about it. When government officials meet with corporate lobbyists, you should be able to watch the meeting. When your tax dollars are appropriated for a government program, you deserve to know where they are going and who requested them.

Anything less is politics-as-usual.

Does Obama realize what it would entail to require that all meetings with lobbyists be open to the public? Who wrote this line? I can’t believe that it’s vetted policy.

With that said, the email does an effective job of turning Hillary’s supposed experience against her:

When asked several direct questions about the release of official records from her time in the White House, Senator Clinton gave a vague and dismissive answer.

These documents, according to Newsweek, include Senator Clinton’s “appointment calendar as First Lady, her notes at strategy meetings, what advice she gave her husband and his advisers, what policy memos she wrote, even some key papers from her health-care task force.”

It’s time to turn the page on this kind of secrecy and restore trust in our government.

If Senator Clinton is going to run on her record, the American people deserve to see it.