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Does Obama Have Any Idea What Is Going On In His Own Administration?
PowerLine ^ | November 14, 2013 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 11/14/2013 8:43:08 PM PST by Zakeet

Earlier this evening, Steve asked whether President Obama is any good at politics. A fair question. Here is another: Does Obama have any idea what is going on in his own administration?

When President Obama speaks off the cuff, he is often revealing, if you can penetrate his trademark incoherence. I found this riff from today’s press conference to be particularly interesting:

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One of the books on Chappaquiddick describes how the Kennedy brain trust gathered at the family compound in Hyannis Port to plot a strategy to salvage Ted Kennedy’s career. One person conspicuously absent from the conclave was Teddy himself. He was on the beach, flying a kite. The family’s advisers considered him too stupid to make any contribution to saving his own skin. Is that how senior members of Obama’s administration treat him? Is he considered a useless fifth wheel? Or was Obama just lying once again when he suggested that his administration’s decision to bring about the cancellation of most individual health care policies, and half or more group-sponsored policies, was just a “fumble,” an inadvertent failure to do a better job “in drafting the rules?”

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: leadership; liberalism; obama; obamacare

Is the Wee Wee just stupid ... or is he considered a useless fifth wheel ... or is he lying once again?

1 posted on 11/14/2013 8:43:09 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

No.


2 posted on 11/14/2013 8:44:23 PM PST by Veggie Todd (I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
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To: Zakeet

No. I have always believed Obutthead is very stupid.


3 posted on 11/14/2013 8:45:44 PM PST by jospehm20 (D)
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To: Zakeet

has anyone seen my tongue


4 posted on 11/14/2013 8:46:21 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Zakeet

All he knows is what he gets from FOX News.


5 posted on 11/14/2013 8:46:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Repeal ObamaScam NOW!!!)
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To: Zakeet

Presidenting is Hard!


6 posted on 11/14/2013 8:46:53 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Zakeet

He always reminds me of the William Hurt character in Broadcast News.


7 posted on 11/14/2013 8:55:08 PM PST by Poison Pill (Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
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To: bigbob

He isn’t stupid—just corrupt up the yazoo. I bet the IRS was his idea—as was the closure of the WW II Monument, even the Gove shuntdown was his idea—so he could blame the GOP. He pretends to know nothing because if we knew the depth of the coruption we would run him out of town on a rail.


8 posted on 11/14/2013 8:57:24 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Zakeet

“Does Obama Have Any Idea What Is Going On In His Own Administration?”

He has no idea about anything and it’s not his administration. It’s President Jarret’s!


9 posted on 11/14/2013 8:58:06 PM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: Zakeet

His excuse to every tragic blunder by these ‘tards has always been: ‘Presidentin’ while blonde!’, so I’d say, “Well, no—duh!”


10 posted on 11/14/2013 8:58:46 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Zakeet

Love the photo. Maybe O is like my SIL who’s family says she isn’t stupid, she just thinks differently tan the rest of us.


11 posted on 11/14/2013 9:00:19 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Zakeet

It’s hard for him to keep up with whatever Valerie Jarrett is doing running the country.


12 posted on 11/14/2013 9:01:41 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Zakeet
Naaaaaahhhh....He's way too smart for the job.
13 posted on 11/14/2013 9:05:29 PM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: Zakeet
We have to remember that for all of his supposed skills, he has lived his life almost entirely with no opposition to anything he wanted. He was a community organizer in left wing Chicago, where the only serious "opposition" is other left wing groups as they slice up the taxpayer's pie.

He ran unopposed for the senate. The republicans roll over for him. The first time anyone ever pushed back appears to be the Tea party, and then foreign leaders like Putin.

He became president with no useful soft skills that are required at and executive level, whether in business or government. He has zero negotiating skills. He has zero people skills. He has zero business experiance.

14 posted on 11/14/2013 9:07:10 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jet Jaguar
It’s hard for him to keep up with whatever Valerie Jarrett is doing running the country.

Your comment is probably very close to the truth. Barry is for the most part a spokes-hole for a criminal organization. His job is to raise campaign money, act like a lightning rod, and otherwise keep up the aloofness so no one gets any straight answers.
15 posted on 11/14/2013 9:10:20 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Zakeet

I don’t believe Obama knows how to fly a kite.


16 posted on 11/14/2013 9:18:18 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Vince Ferrer

And that’s the reason I often refer to him as zero -


17 posted on 11/14/2013 9:21:16 PM PST by Catsrus (A)
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To: Zakeet
Is the Wee Wee just stupid ... or is he considered a useless fifth wheel ... or is he lying once again?

Yes.

18 posted on 11/14/2013 10:12:45 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Yes, but his media and his party told us that all that experience isn’t necessary for barry.
He was so smart he would learn on the job.

How’s that all working out for the dims now?


19 posted on 11/15/2013 5:19:43 AM PST by Texas resident
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