I don't believe these "found out on the news" lies. If he's that incompetent, he should be impeached.
David On May 22, 2014, at 2:31 PM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Not exactly a surprise, is it? BHO was on the faculty of a leading > university, > the University of Illinois, with not even one scholarly paper to his credit. > Why not? Well, he isn't a scholar, that's why. His vaunted brainpower, > in other words, is all sham. > > The point is not that every politician needs to be a scholar. No-one says so. > However, in Obama's case there was all that pretense in 2008, which continued > well into 2012, and sometimes still exists among his acolytes. > > Among actual scholars there is the factor: Hey, I have a decent publications > record > and I can't get a job at the University of Illinois. How did Obama get his > job? > Could it be because he is black and a sweetheart of the political Left? > Nah, that isn't possible, is it? (wink, wink) > > To repeat a sentiment made explicit before, the whole system stinks > and needs to be replaced. The Republicans aren't much (or even any) better. > And for one I am sick of it. > > Billy > > > > When a President Learns Everything on TV > > Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary 05.20.2014 > Today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney sought to partially walk back > his statement yesterday in which he said President Obama learned about the > growing scandal at the Veterans Administration by watching a report on the > topic on CNN. After realizing just how bad that sounded, Carney returned to > the daily briefing with the White House press corps today to say that his > statement was being misinterpreted. According to Carney, what he really meant > to say was that the president had only heard of the "specific allegations" > about misconduct at VA hospitals by watching television. But, he insisted, > the president was aware of problems at the VA, as proved by statements he had > made during his 2008 presidential campaign when he promised to fix the agency. > > Which is to say that, yes, Barack Obama had heard of the VA and had some > vague intention to improve it as part of an effort to pose as someone who > cares about our nation's veterans. But between his arrival in the Oval Office > and his subsequent appointment of retired Army General Eric Shinseki to head > the VA in 2009 and the moment when he stumbled into awareness about the > scandal during the course of spending some quality time with his remote > control, he hadn't given the topic much, if any, thought. > > > The administration's problem here is not just that the VA scandal is far more > serious than even Carney is currently willing to admit and that any action it > is currently taking to address the plague of mismanagement and corruption > that may have cost the lives of at least 40 veterans while they awaited > treatment is too little and too late. As I noted last week, having an > absentee president is bad for both the health of veterans and the nation. The > president may have gotten away with treating the IRS scandal as no big deal > and questions about Benghazi as merely a Republican witch hunt. But the > spectacle of widespread corruption at the heart of a government health-care > system that led to the deaths of veterans is not one you can pass off as a > product of the fevered imaginations of his opponents. That's especially true > when you consider that Rep. Jeff Miller, the chair of the House Veterans > Affairs Committee, wrote specifically to the president a year ago to bring to > his attention what was already believed to be a widespread problem involving > inefficiency and deceptive practices. > > The fact that the White House resorted to what has become its standard > second-term excuse for government scandal with a line about the president > hearing about it on TV or by reading the newspapers raises serious questions > about both his leadership and the intelligence of his staff. After all, > surely it must have occurred to someone at the White House that using the > same excuse about hearing of it in the media wasn't likely to work after it > had been employed with little success to distance him from the IRS and other > scandals. Such intellectual laziness speaks to a West Wing that is both > collapsing from intellectual fatigue as well as having acquired an almost > complete contempt for both the press and public opinion. > > The consequences here aren't limited to the growing credibility gap that this > administration continues to build. It's bad enough that no one--not even his > most ardent supporters--really believe that the president is on top of these > issues. But what really stings is that Carney and the rest of the inhabitants > of the Obama echo chamber have really come to believe that no one cares > whether they are telling the truth or not. > > Just as important is the reality of a government that is out of the control > of its leader. A year ago Miller noted that one of the chief problems at the > VA was a lack of accountability. That's still true of the agency, as the > deaths of veterans has provoked a low-key administration response that has > left Secretary Shinseki in charge of a problem that grew worse on his watch. > But it is also true of President Obama. > > While no president can micromanage every Cabinet department, if Obama really > did care about veterans, how is it that in the years between his first use of > the issue as a campaign tactic and the moment when it exploded in the media > he managed never to do a thing about the issue, even when specifically warned > about the "allegations" that Carney claims he didn't know about? > > The lack of confidence in government is a natural response to events like the > VA scandal, but it is compounded by a presidential response that makes it > clear that Obama doesn't pay much attention to the issues he raised in his > own campaigns and that he is slow to act even after learning about such > disasters on television. This scandal makes it clear, if it hadn't already > been so, that the Obama administration has run out of steam, ideas, or even a > willingness to pretend that it cares about public opinion. It's going to be a > long slog until January 2017. > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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