First off Hannity, he isn't my savior. Secondly the fundamental problem with that article and Ron Paul's opinion is quite simple: Obama was never the peace candidate. He's repeatedly said he'd go into Pakistan if he had to get Bin Laden there, that all options were on the table for Iran and he would expand the war in Afghanistan, which was a UN sanctioned and justified War. He only said he would draw up an escape plan for Iraq, something McCain, Bush and the Republican party said was "throwing up the white flag of surrender." America is an empire, a Democracy was forced in Iraq and it won't be a stable Democracy just a puppet government. No politician except for a few extremists want to end the American empire; that's reality. You can choose to look at Libertarian websites and fume in anger over how disagreeable that is but it's reality. America will never have a pacifist (or isolationist in the case of Ron Paul) President.
As far as that transparency he promised look at this:
Recovery.gov All the money which is going to benefit American communities and infrastructure, not private banks and industry, can be tracked. That's the very definition of transparency. Most economists, bar laissez-faire nuts like Ron Paul, agree that a stimulus package is necessary. Most are saying it isn't enough money unless it's all spent in the next thirty days; which is impossible. A stimulus package is necessary.