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"Tamp It Down"

Mike

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Swamped in controversies, President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentially telling the American public, “We’re not crooked. We’re just incompetent.”
The IRS targeting conservatives, the Justice Department snooping at The Associated Press, the State Department injecting politics into Benghazi, the military covering up sexual assaults, and the Department of Veterans Affairs leaving heroes in health care limbo – each of these so-called scandals share two traits.
First, there is some element of “spin," the cynical art of telling just enough of the truth to avoid political embarrassment. Obfuscation and demagogy, the dirty tools of political quackery that Obama pledged to purge from Washington, enjoy top-shelf status at his White House.
Second, there is almost comical bungling. While denying involvement in high crimes and misdemeanors, the Obama administration appears to be pleading guilty to lesser crimes of bureaucratic incompetence. But that is an unsustainable position for a president who wants Americans to believe again in the power and grace of good government, particularly as it relates to the implementation of Obamacare.
--IRS agents targeted conservatives. Their bosses lied about it for months.
--Justice Department investigators violated internal guidelines to secretly spy on The Associated Press.
--White House and State Department officials minimized their role in shaping initial explanations for the Benghazi attack.
--Military officers assigned to sexual assault prevention units are charged with sexual battery. The Pentagon’s own study finds that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012. It’s not a new problem.
--Despite a 40 percent increase in funding, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs cannot ease a backlog of cases. The typical wounded warrior waits more than 300 days for action on a claim. In major cities, the wait can be 642 days.
The backdrop to this parade of buffoonery is a decades-long decline in the public’s faith in government, a trend continued under Obama. Restoring the public’s trust in his governance is the only way Obama can survive the controversies with his agenda and legacy intact.
In interviews, allies of the White House privately suggested a few things Obama could do, including:
Appoint a bipartisan oversight board to oversee the implementation of Obamacare. There is no way around the fact that a vast majority of voters will not trust the IRS to implement the greatest piece of social legislation in decades. Before the tempests, Obamacare was unpopular and largely misunderstood by most Americans. The law’s success hinges on the government recruiting young adults into insurance pools. And polls show young adults are the least likely to trust government.
Layer the White House communication team with experienced crisis managers. As I wrote here last week, Obama needs to realize that the dedicated public servants in the West Wing are not getting the job done.
Apologize to the AP and announce a new policy for leaks investigations. The White House needs to punish people who leak classified information that endangers national security. But the scope of the snooping at AP combined with Obama's unprecedented zeal for leaks investigations raises doubts about his commitment to transparency and to an unfettered media. He has pursued more such cases than all previous administration combined, according to the Washington Post. The paper also reported that the administration spied on a Fox News reporter at the State Department. Again, this is a matter of trust.
Appoint a special prosecutor on the IRS. The last thing the country needs is another subpoena-powered fishing expedition like the Whitewater inquiries. But we might need a special prosecutor with a narrowly defined mission to investigate the actions and motives of IRS agents and their superiors. Is there a better way to restore the agency’s integrity? The administration investigating itself will not lift the cloud from Obama’s White House.
 

Steve

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President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentially telling the American public, “We’re not crooked. We’re just incompetent.”

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Tam

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Edit/Delete this post

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reader (the Second) wrote:
He ran. He campaigned for several years. He proved himself under taxing conditions. He did not enter the campaign in the last 2 months and show himself not read for prime time as Palin did. For all that Palin may be a remarkable woman, she could not have done what Obama did in terms of running a campaign in such a disciplined manner for 2 years. She simply did not have the experience or seasoning or whatever it was that made him capable of beating Hillary and being a phenomenal fund raiser and a good communicator.

She's great with crowds who love her but needs to have much more exposure and hard knocks if she's ever to get to his level of competence in the political arena.

Tam wrote
PALIN WASN'T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT and she has alot more class that the idiot that is sitting in the seat she was running for.

And as for Obama beating anyone, THE MEDIA and racism beat Hillary and McCain and the Media will bring Obama down when they start seeing him for what he really is.

If the media would have done their job of vetting Obama, all his dirty little secrets would have been brought out including whether he is a qualified candidate. He was never vetted because of people like those with a tingle going up and down their legs never bothered. When you have the media thinking it is their job to make sure he is a success, it is not likely you are going to get them to report something that will show the truth about the guy. What you will see is them destroying anyone that dares step in their ROCK STAR's way and in this case it was Sarah Palin. Liberal Blog sites made up lies about her and the MSM did what they could to push those lies to further damage her.
Be Proud Reader the US has a inexperienced JUNIOR Senator from the most corrupt state in the Union turned President that campaigned on LIES And you were gullible enough to buy the lock stock and barrel.


Maybe if he had served a couple of terms in the Senate and got more "seasoning" in national and international matters he would have known what he was doing and would have known not to let Pelosi even look at the stimulus bill let alone WRITE it.

His level of competence, What a joke
Tax cheats being nominated for Cabinet positions is real competent.

Having Pelosi writing the Stimulus bill is real competent.

Announcing the close of Gitmo without a plan to do so is real competent.

Dismissing charges on a terrorist before speaking to the victims families is real competent.
Lifting a ban of funding foreign abortions when the US is in a finanical crisis is real competent.
Standing in front of the country and telling them that the government just passed a bill with no earmarks after just passing the large spenting bill in US history that contained billions in earmarks and a second bill that has 9000 more earmarks is really competent.
Telling the US public he will cut the deficit in half during a recession after passing one of the largest spenting bill in US history in real competent

Telling the US that the stimulus bill will create 3.5 million new jobs when the experts say it will not even come close is real competent

Picking gaff master Joe Biden with a son that is tied to fraud charges for cheating an investor out of millions during a finanical crisis is real competent

Using the word crisis 26 times in a short public speech is real competent
The DOW dropping over a 1000 points in the first month of his Presidency really shows how competent Wall Street thinks he is.


One thing Obama is is a competent liar as millions of US voters believed his crap but it looks like maybe the honeymoons over as the polls the other day showed him under 60% approval rating
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NOW Obama's team thinks they can use incompetence to excuse their recent actions. :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We all knew he was INCOMPETENT and should never have been elected in the first place but the back slapping, fact hiding media and the little informed leftwingnut voters would not believe any of us as we were just being racist by pointing out what was evident to anyone paying attention. :roll:

A CORRUPT COMMUNITY ORGANIZER/JUNIOR SENATOR WITH A YEAR IN DC IS NOT EXPERIENCED ENOUGH TO RUN A LEMONADE STAND LET ALONE THE COUNTRY. If Obama could find a way to blame this all on Bush he would but he can't so he is sending his talking heads out to try sweep his horrid performance under the rug in hopes everyone will just look the other way. When he lost tingle up his leg Chris Matthews he had to have known he was in BAD SHAPE.
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iwannabeacowboy

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Mike said:
As reader2 has shown, a high education level does not in any way hinder incompetence.

No it doesn't, but I think the word education is incorrectly used in our society today. I think we should use the term "high or higher degree". As most obtaining degree's from our higher institutions are not actually educated.

Listening to the radio on Sunday driving in my car. A lady that graduated from North Carolina- they gave her a degree, could not name who was head of the Senate and House. Her answer- Colin Powell. :shock:

I am sure reader2 was also highly degreed, but not highly educated from what I have read.
 

hypocritexposer

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iwannabeacowboy said:
Mike said:
As reader2 has shown, a high education level does not in any way hinder incompetence.

No it doesn't, but I think the word education is incorrectly used in our society today. I think we should use the term "high or higher degree". As most obtaining degree's from our higher institutions are not actually educated.

Listening to the radio on Sunday driving in my car. A lady that graduated from North Carolina- they gave her a degree, could not name who was head of the Senate and House. Her answer- Colin Powell. :shock:

I am sure reader2 was also highly degreed, but not highly educated from what I have read.

everything was a "conspiracy theory", to R2
 
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