FQ said "Openess, C-Span, etc. Guess what, when he found out that not everyone loved him he resorts to the same closed door, and phony "public" events as W."
Here is a major difference. W, was dealing with fighting a war. Strategies and battle plans are not, and should not be open to the public. Congress and the media have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to keep sensitive information out of the hands of our enemies.
The debate on health care is not a matter of national security, nor does it put our soldiers at risk. Those meetings should have been open. And yet we knew nothing about what was going on, until it was too late.