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Obama’s Defenders: He’s Not Corrupt, Just Dishonest and Incompetent
Commentary Magazine ^ | May 17, 2013 | Seth Mandel

Posted on 05/18/2013 1:47:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There was a running joke in the fall of 2008 that John McCain should simply re-air Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” ad, which highlighted Barack Obama’s lack of experience and meager knowledge of world affairs, and just tack on “I’m John McCain, and I approve this message” at the end of the ad. The point was that thanks to the bitter primary battle between the Clintons and Obama, Democrats had already developed the most effective lines of attack against Obama, and Republicans needed only to nod their heads in agreement.

Something similar is taking place amid the several Obama administration scandals that have surfaced almost simultaneously. (There has been new information on Benghazi, but the issue itself isn’t new; the IRS and AP phone records scandals, in contrast, hit less than a week apart.) Both Democrats and Republicans are raising the prospect that the GOP could get carried away or bungle their response to the scandals–surely a possibility. One way to prevent that, however, would be to simply echo the way Obama’s supporters have tried to defend him.

As I wrote on Monday, one clear lesson from this is the danger of ever-expanding, unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy at the center of an increasingly powerful central government. That also happens to be the crux of President Obama’s governing strategy. Indeed, the IRS’s reach and power is expanded as part of ObamaCare–itself an expansion of government along demonstrably failed strategic lines. So it’s no surprise that after the IRS systematically targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups in order to eviscerate the First Amendment rights of those who disagreed with President Obama (and at the direction of high-ranking elected Democrats), the IRS official responsible for overseeing tax-exempt groups has since been moved over to run the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
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Many of us here said that about the "3 a.m." ad. But we weren't joking.
1 posted on 05/18/2013 1:47:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"He’s Not Corrupt, Just Dishonest and Incompetent"

I say he's all three. Same goes for a large number of people he's surrounded himself with.

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2 posted on 05/18/2013 1:49:44 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

they are all bad and dishonest and would have few qualms about lying cheating stealing or killing to get their way


3 posted on 05/18/2013 1:51:22 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is pure evil.


4 posted on 05/18/2013 1:51:24 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Joe Brower

He’s stupid and unable to attract capable talent. He has managed to surround himself with incompetent dolts and thieving mountebanks


5 posted on 05/18/2013 1:52:41 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Joe Brower
Because We Say So!


6 posted on 05/18/2013 1:52:55 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Accept a plea of diminished capacity, take the Congress in 2014 and move on.


7 posted on 05/18/2013 1:56:17 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Plan "B" is now Plan "A")
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To: Joe Brower
I believe the most apt descriptor is “evil”.
8 posted on 05/18/2013 1:56:32 PM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and corrupt.


9 posted on 05/18/2013 1:56:44 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Minimum wage should go down not up.)
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Both Democrats and Republicans are raising the prospect that the GOP could get carried away or bungle their response to the scandals

My guess, is that the Republicans will bungle it. They have priors, and I have no doubt they will blow it this time as well. Sorry for being so cynical, but we have seen this dog and pony show before.

10 posted on 05/18/2013 2:00:50 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: Mike Darancette

I agree. When you’re fighting a war, you sometimes have to let things go to attain bigger objectives. Getting Obama dragged out of office might feel really good, but winning Congress is far more important.

If Congress can be taken, Obama’s objectives can be overturned. But if we focus too much on getting rid of Obama, it is possible that the Dems could increase their hold on Congress.


11 posted on 05/18/2013 2:01:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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12 posted on 05/18/2013 2:03:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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I wish one Congress critter would have asked Miller if he was using “I don’t recall and I don’t know “ as a form of deception or if he was proudly displaying his incompetence.


13 posted on 05/18/2013 2:04:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Joe Brower

Well yes he’s all three....but a lot of folks won’t accept the first, and they might accept the second and third since the “defenders” are saying it....


14 posted on 05/18/2013 2:05:09 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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“He’s Not Corrupt, Just Dishonest and Incompetent” #2
He has managed to surround himself with incompetent dolts and thieving mountebanks #5
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
You can call him Dishonest and Incompetent as long as you ad stupid and or idiotic.
Like #5 says, he is surround by idiots of his (and whoever is pulling his strings) choice and - since the pompous SOB has to appear to be smarter than everyone else, the result is he has a bunch of dolts as czars and cabinet heads...Not only YES men (women) but senseless yes men.

One can be dumber than a box of rocks but fall into something (like a company by inheritance)and surround himself with ‘brilliant geniuses’ and spend the day on the golf course....HE does that but has a bunch of incompetent rubes making the decisions.

WE ARE DOOMED.....<: <:


15 posted on 05/18/2013 2:06:52 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --I turn 75 next year- but remember, that's only 24 Celsius. (TKS R. Reagan))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


16 posted on 05/18/2013 2:08:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Joe Brower

He’s definitely all three, he and the bums he’s surrounded himself with are corrupting the Constitution.


17 posted on 05/18/2013 2:10:27 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Jonty30

When he’s done THE FOREIGNERS reign will be so bad the FRAUDS ON THE LEFTS new motto will be “THEIR MEANS JUSTIFIES THEIR END”


18 posted on 05/18/2013 2:10:27 PM PDT by spawn44 ( moo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, Obama and many in his administration are corrupt...but so are the media who refuse to report on the corruption.

That’s the real story. Could Obama have been elected if he had been honestly vetted by a media acting as an honest broker? Not likely. We still don’t know lots about him. He never really won an election until he beat McCain...all of his elections in Illinois were set-ups. Why? Who was/is pulling the strings?

The media is deeply uninterested.


19 posted on 05/18/2013 2:11:38 PM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Democrats [e.g., the Clintons] had already developed the most effective lines of attack against Obama, and Republicans needed only to nod their heads in agreement... Both Democrats and Republicans are raising [meme building alert] the prospect that the GOP could get carried away or bungle their response to the scandals -- surely a possibility. One way to prevent that, however, would be to simply echo the way Obama’s supporters have tried to defend him. As I wrote on Monday, one clear lesson from this is the danger of ever-expanding, unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy at the center of an increasingly powerful central government. That also happens to be the crux of President Obama’s governing strategy. Indeed, the IRS’s reach and power is expanded as part of ObamaCare -- itself an expansion of government along demonstrably failed strategic lines... it’s no surprise that... the IRS official responsible for overseeing tax-exempt groups has since been moved over to run the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare...

20 posted on 05/18/2013 2:13:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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