Posted on 10/02/2014 7:07:50 AM PDT by servo1969
The quintessential question of Watergate was “what did the President know and when did he know it?” Obamagate, the vast scandal that encompasses an entire presidency, offers a preemptive answer.
Obama didn’t know anything and he never knew it. At least not until, like smuggling weapons to druglords, bugging journalists, IRSing his political enemies and killing vets, his right hand found out about what his left hand was doing from the morning paper.
After skipping 58% of his daily intelligence briefings in Term 1 and 59% of them in Term 2, he went on 60 Minutes and blamed intelligence agencies for being caught by surprise by ISIS. The intelligence had been there all along, but Obama wasn’t just missing his 3 AM phone calls — he was also skipping the 3 PM phone calls while golfing with the CEO of Comcast, friendly hedge fund managers and assorted lobbyists.
When the media, in the person of loyalist New Yorker editor David Remnick, tried to do its newfound duty by briefing him on the ISIS takeover of an Iraqi city, Obama snarked back by calling ISIS a jayvee team. Snark had proven to be an effective national security strategy for him before when he won a presidential debate by dismissing Mitt Romney’s concerns about national security with lines like, “The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back” and “We also have fewer horses and bayonets.”
The media cheered the spectacle of a real life version of a Saturday Night Live or a Daily Show skit while licking its lips at the thought of a President Stewart or Colbert ruling through pre-scripted quips. And the problem was solved until ISIS took over much of Iraq. The ISIS version of a snappy comeback was to call Obama “a White House slave” and a “mule” which sounds really racist and doesn’t translate well.
What the ISIS standup act lacked in comic timing, it made up for by besieging Baghdad, bringing back slavery and taking selfies with severed heads. Between his golf games and vacations, Obama finally penciled in a war, declaring, “The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.”
And it only took him 6 years to figure that out. Talk about an intelligence failure.
Obama botched his own disastrous ObamaCare program turning it into an even more expensive mess than it already was. Once again he claimed that he only found out about the problem from the media. Just like he found out that his VA turnaround was killing more vets than Al Qaeda was from that same media.
Let’s take Obama at his word for a moment and assume that he really is a clueless dilettante who doesn’t know anything about anything until it appears in bold type on the front page of the New York Times. But then what exactly does he do besides give speeches at fundraisers, golf, vacation and blame Congress for not passing some gimmick bill that even his own party loyalists wouldn’t touch in an attempt to divert attention from the latest disaster he only found out about through the media?
He tried to force amnesty through Congress and instead caused a border crisis. After blowing a billion dollars on a contractor with a top family friend executive, the ObamaCare website went 404. His stimulus funds went into the trash. His Green Energy recipients went into bankruptcy court. He’s still claiming credit for fixing unemployment by convincing the unemployed to drop out of the economy.
And now he’s stuck being a third-rate Bush, bombing Iraq while trying to explain that the Al Qaeda he’s bombing now is not the Al Qaeda he claimed to have defeated when he was running for reelection.
There’s no doubt that he did a great deal for the left by stewarding an expansion of the regulatory bureaucracy and scoring lots of points in the culture war, but he could have managed to achieve the former by sticking to his old career of filing frivolous lawsuits and pulled off the latter by becoming one of Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central second bananas before graduating to his own spinoff show.
No one needed him in the White House. If the Democratic Party was that desperate to dodge every gaffe, scandal and criticism with cries of racism, it could have gotten some other black guy. There are twenty million of them. And any one of them would have done a better job and played a lot less golf.
And now after running for office as the “Smartest guy in the room,” the Nobel Prize winner has chosen to become a born-again idiot.
With his wartime latte salutes and his post-war announcement golf games, Obama is aiming to be seen as an amiable incompetent idiot to preserve his likability rating. But that’s only half-true. There is nothing amiable about his incompetence or his idiocy.
The roots of both can be found in his arrogance.
Obama claimed, “I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters… I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors … I’m a better political director than my political director.” It went without saying that he also understood legislating better than Congress and the Constitution better than the Supreme Court. He understood website programming better than the programmers which is why the ObamaCare website testing and redesigns happened inside the government.
He even insisted that he was a better ISIS Jihadist than the actual Jihadists, offering his advice as “an adviser to ISIS” to a coterie of big media types. And yet if ISIS ever did make him its Caliph, it would be reduced to two guys hiding in a kebab shack in Yemen before the month was out.
Obama can do everything better than everyone else, which is why he can never get anything right. He assumed that he would rule as a genius surrounded by incompetent idiots. And he was half right.
The HHS and VA secretaries were purged over failures of leadership that came from the top down. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton resigned half a year after Benghazi. The Attorney General stepped down after a U.S. District Court judge began applying serious pressure over Fast and Furious docs.
If we begin listing the top generals, defense and security officials who were forced out to cover up for Obama’s failures at all things military, we would be here all day.
Having thrown everyone else under the bus, Obama is gently climbing under it for a short nap. Then he’ll be back to change the subject from his latest failure to a proposal that is doomed to become a failure while urging Americans not to be cynical about all his past failures.
The left never understood that its policy failures come from its bad intentions. It’s incompetent because it’s malicious.
Obama is blaming the intelligence officials for not giving him the briefings on ISIS that he wouldn’t attend. But he knew all about ISIS. He chose not to listen to avoid exactly what is happening now.
As a born again idiot, Obama maintains a layer of plausible deniability over his incompetence. But it’s an ignorance of choice. He chooses not to contemplate the consequences of his actions and instead uses the media as a warning system to tell him that the latest crisis has penetrated the liberal bubble.
The left chooses not to know what it doesn’t want to know. It chose not to know what the USSR was doing. It chose not to know what ISIS was up.
It chooses not to know because then it would have to do something.
Obama didn’t want to do anything about ISIS. He didn’t want to do anything about the VA. He didn’t want to acknowledge knowing anything about the IRS targeting and he didn’t care about how well or how badly the ObamaCare website would work until he realized its impact on his approval ratings.
His incompetence and ignorance are expressions of his contempt. His policies implode because he never bothered to understand how they would impact real people.
He chooses not to know, because he chose not to care.
And Obama has said a number of times, that he learned about a story from the news media reports. He has a lack of knowledge of what goes on in his own administration, which his media lap dogs enable him to use as excuses for not having proactively done anything about a problem.
I’d say that would be the most kind interpretation. Another would be he’s achieving his goals.
This article is way too kind. How about the alternative that this is all part of a Cloward Piven strategy to take down the country?
Hard to be a “born again idiot” when you were already firmly in place as an idiot from the “git go”. And still he has approval ratings. Some of the people all of the time.
Maybe his real part in the Cloward Piven strategy is to simply be himself. In other words, maybe having a lazy fop like Obama in the Oval Office is all part of someone else’s Cloward Piven strategy.
This communists black Muslim traitor has all but destroyed the American Constitution. And he took along with that wrecked foreign relations, economy, and taken with him millions of dumb blockhead Americans. So much for intelligence.
Zip! Zing! Zowie!
Obama also benefits greatly from an opposition park with incredibly weak leadership and no core principles. Almost any person pulled randomly off the street could do a better job opposing this president and exposing his failures than John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, Jeb Bush, Lindsay Graham, etc., etc., etc. They are as pathetic as Obama.
Speaking of Jeb, where’s father George H.W. Bush and brother George W. Bush on all of this? They are sitting comfortably in their fine homes watching the nation spiral down in the toilet. As elite aristocrats they ostensibly hang to the tradition of ex presidents not commenting on their successors instead of filling the leadership void by speaking out and rallying the people. When the nation is in the ash bin of history they will not be admired for their principled silence which is really acquiescence to the tragedy unfolding before our eyes. The founding fathers, who risked everything for liberty, would retch at the sight of the Bush family sitting quietly in luxury.
Contrast the silence of our two Bush ex presidents to a real statesman, Winston Churchill, who took the unpopular road publicly speaking out against the disastrous policies of Neville Chamberlain as Hitler armed and began his quest to conquer the world. Perhaps the Bushes got tired of being vilified in the pages of the New York Times and decided silence would buy them peace. Unfortunately for them history shows that when civilization collapses and the barbarians break through the gates, the first places they pillage are the homes and institutions of the rich and famous. It may also be they are so deluded by political correctness and Ivy League educations they really believe Islam is the religion of peace.
Is there no one with any stature in public life who will stand tall?
People usually intend the natural and foreseeable consequences of their actions, particularly when they continue to pursue them consistently and where the results (destruction or weakening of USA and judeo- Christian faith/ morals ) are exactly what he’s been promising/ threatening us with all along. He’s not incompetent. He’s accomplishing precisely what he’s set out to do. Quite successfully, indeed. Alas. Pray for America. We have to somehow survive two more years of this subversion.
<><> He appointed a seasoned Chicago operator ---Valerie Jarrett---as his "Senior Deputy Advisor." In Chicagoland criminal palance that means "wire transfer artist."
<><> He appointed his pal---tax dodger Tim Geithner as Treastury Secy.
<><> At the same time, he positioned his COS Rahm Emanuel in the Dept of Treasury.
Read on.
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THE KINGPINS OF CHICAGO CRIMINAL POLITICS IN OUR WH wasted no time.....they had a stranglehold on the Census (AND US Treasury) from day one.
The minute Obama/Valerie/Rahm/Axelrod/Geithner, and that diseased bunch of criminals, landed in the WH they did two things that were apparently crucial to their evil plans
(a) they took control of the US Census;
(b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).
THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
The connection between the IRS targeting and the WH's malevolent parasites at Treasury becomes clearer.
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THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down). Ya gotta wonder how much Wall Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury.
MULTI-TASKING LITTLE DEVIL Rahmbo was at Treasury AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS Obama's COS.
A rare combination of stubbornness, arrogance, ignorance, laziness, greed and a mellifluous voice.
How many lies does a libtard politician have to tell before the lame stream media steps up and tells the truth?
That means, he only knows what they want him to know!
THIS way, he can blame THEM too, if anything goes wrong.
NEAT. That is so convenient for him. :)
The only problem with THIS is ... if the listener is over 6 years of age, the explanation will NOT work!
On the immigration issue and by extension the Ebola crisis now, Bonehead has uttered not a peep and McConnell is MIA. Silence is an admission of guilt.
As far as the Bushes go, Georgio II gave us Obama. Any comments from him, not a peep. Why not, well, since he is acquiescing to what he does without a peep, it is obvious to me he agrees i.e. he was for unfettered immigration and who was it who proposed the stimulus??
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