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White House fires back on Sarah Palin’s Secret Service criticism
Yahoo! News ^ | April 20, 2012 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 04/20/2012 12:27:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Sarah Palin's charge that the Secret Service prostitute scandal highlighted President Barack Obama's "poor management skills" drew a sharp rebuke Friday from the White House, where chief spokesman Jay Carney dubbed it absurd and politically motivated.

"It is preposterous to politicize the Secret Service," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing.

Palin and Republican Senator Jeff Sessions have in recent days charged that the scandal, coupled to the outrage over the General Services Administration's lavish spending on a convention in Las Vegas, reflect poorly on Obama. Those two controversies, as well as the tragic mass slaying of Afghan civilians, allegedly by an American soldier, have overshadowed much of the White House's agenda in recent weeks.

"What they're doing is trying to turn these incidents — one that's still under investigation — to political advantage," Carney charged when asked about critics who lump the three issues together. "On the face of it, it's a ridiculous assertion that trivializes both the very serious nature of the endeavor that our military is engaged in in Afghanistan and the very serious nature both of the work that the Secret Service does, the apolitical nature of the institution, and the seriousness of the investigation under way," the spokesman said.

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KEYWORDS: cartagena; colombia; hookergate; palin; sarahpalin; sarahpalinss; secretservice; secretservicescandal
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1 posted on 04/20/2012 12:27:49 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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"What they're doing is trying to turn these incidents — one that's still under investigation — to political advantage," Carney charged . . .

Sarah's action is totally unfair - because it's going to interfere with the White House's ability to turn these incidents to its own political advantage.

2 posted on 04/20/2012 12:30:01 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Can we afford as much government as welfare-addicted voters demand?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good to know the 0 admin is right on top of Sarah Palin’s activities! Very important work!

Just ridiculous.


3 posted on 04/20/2012 12:30:01 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Pray for America!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oooooooo,

“A sharp rebuke”,

She must be terrified.


4 posted on 04/20/2012 12:30:08 PM PDT by nixonsnose (Let's see all you lawyers argue your way out of hell.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"The SS is above reproach"
5 posted on 04/20/2012 12:32:57 PM PDT by Autonomous User ( As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Carney is something of an expert on the “absurd and politically motivated”.

SnakeDoc


6 posted on 04/20/2012 12:34:59 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Democrats blamed earthquakes, sunspots and alien invasions on Bush. What goes around, comes around.


7 posted on 04/20/2012 12:35:12 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: PreciousLiberty

They’re terrified she might run and I wish she would.


8 posted on 04/20/2012 12:37:23 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (From the dough tree we get donuts.)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Amazing they continue to feel obliged to attack her after all this time. Sarah has a gift for afflicting the corrupt and powerful.
9 posted on 04/20/2012 12:39:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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10 posted on 04/20/2012 12:39:19 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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Hey, The Donald always fires the guy in charge. Just sayin’.


11 posted on 04/20/2012 12:39:39 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1913)
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Here we have a Pres—ent who has never had a job where anyone ever reported to him;
who’s portrayed as a Constitutional scholar because he was a part time lecturer at a Chicago university for a short time;
who was basically a racial money pimp on the streets of black Chicago;
who never took positions as a state legislator that gained office by blackmailing his opposition;
who was in the US Senate, who never sponsered any legislation, for about 150 days before he started his bid for higher office;
and has never, ever run anything as complex as a lemonaide stand.

Mr Carney, what could ever negatively reflect on his management style or experience??


12 posted on 04/20/2012 12:41:03 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

this from the “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste” administration.


13 posted on 04/20/2012 12:41:28 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Diogenesis

BJ Clinton should be in the cartoon, looking UP.


14 posted on 04/20/2012 12:42:11 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“the Maldives.”


15 posted on 04/20/2012 12:42:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (under construction)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It is leadership. When your DOJ won’t prosecute Black Panthers, the ATF at the direction of the AG run guns and the entire administration acts above the law this is what you get.


16 posted on 04/20/2012 12:43:10 PM PDT by DCmarcher-976453
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To: Pollster1
Sarah's action is totally unfair - because it's going to interfere with the White House's ability to turn these incidents to its own political advantage.

LOL, I get a good laugh, and ya stick it to Zero at the same time.

17 posted on 04/20/2012 12:48:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She’s not to be underestimated.


18 posted on 04/20/2012 12:54:29 PM PDT by budwiesest (It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sarah Palin was correct in placing the blame on Obama and Biden.

The only success that can be claimed by Obama and Biden is that they have created an atmosphere in government that “anything goes”.

Since Obama has never held a position of leadership, he is incapable of accepting the concept that this Secret Service fiasco happened on “his watch”.


19 posted on 04/20/2012 12:56:49 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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20 posted on 04/20/2012 1:00:39 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ("Of two evils, choose neither." -- Charles Spurgeon)
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