David Ignatius: Obama may be looking to shake-up his White House team

Washington Post ^ | October 7, 2014 | By David Ignatius

[DAC21]

Nothing but bluster, he doesn’t trust them, or consider their opinions anyway. If Jarrett leaves then there is something to it. Seeing they are ideological twins and personal friends I don’t see it happening. Just the optics of it would be bad for Jarretts rep. and she would look like another victim of Odunga’s bus. Odunga wouldn’t do that to her in my opinion.

[Bitsy]

The best thing for this country would be for him to resign.

Then we would have Joe?

[dead]

National security adviser Susan Rice still suffers from unfair attacks over the Benghazi affair. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was similarly tarnished by a rough confirmation hearing. Secretary of State John Kerry... CIA Director John Brennan... Vice President Biden...

You know this Administration is a clown car, but it still manages to be shocking when they all step out at once.

[bert]

Translation...... there are resignation requests from rats wanting to desert the sinking ship.

[Fightin Whitey]

Obama May Be Looking to Shake Up His White House Team..Presidents often need new energy and talent to refurbish their second terms....

This is what passes for genius from one of the wisest of wise old hands in Washington.

What a mountain of mildewed bull---t they all eat, drink, breathe and exude day after day.

[illiac]

Based on the people he has there now, the chances are slim any replacements will be any better....

[Graewoulf]

BUMP!

[tsomer]

I soldiered on. It was amusing to read for its presumptuousness as much as it’s inanity.

I wouldn’t call it an editorial, it was more a kind of addle-brained “Dear Abby” reply to an imaginary appeal from ‘bam.

Lately these mainstream pro-’bam editorials sound like that.

[NeoCaveman]

After the 2006 election Bush had to bring in a bunch of new people.

After 2014 election Obama will have to bring in a bunch of new people for the same reason.

[Lee'sGhost]

I still maintain that having Idiot Joe as prez would be better than having Ovomit who is willfully trying to destroy the U.S.

[TheConservativeParty]

It would be nice if he would take Moochie on a fantastic tour of Africa this fall. I think we’d all be OK with them spending 10 or 20 million on a 2 week safari through the continent. I’ve heard it’s lovely there this time of year (sarc!).

[Bitsy]

You’re probably right.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Don’t let the door hit ya, Ebola...

[DoodleDawg]

Presidents often need new energy and talent to refurbish their second terms. George W. Bush opted for such a shake-up in 2006, and it arguably saved his presidency. Barack Obama is now facing a similar moment, and there are signs he’s looking to make some personnel changes after the November congressional elections.

He'll never get them confirmed.

[Billthedrill]

Trust an apparatchik like Ignatius to put a brave front on it. In fact, this has been a stunningly incompetent team and its performance has born that out. One of the core competencies of anyone elected to executive office is the ability to build and manage a team, and it is perhaps the first and worst deficiency of a candidate who never held an executive position more important than Community Activist. Sure, such an individual might be transported on a sedan chair of race to the highest office in the land but it doesn't mean he had the faintest idea of what to do there except bitch once he was delivered there to the sound of ecstatic media trumpeting and kowtowing.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that those few in this disastrous administration who still possess an intellectual pulse want to place as much distance between themselves and public culpability as possible. With a team still with two years to go whose single obvious ability is to lay blame on somebody else, that can be a chancy thing. This isn't, after all, a game of Pin The Tail On the Donkey, however deserving, there are plenty of tails to go around and if there is any justice in the political world every one of these jackasses is going to depart with one Bostitched firmly to his or her plump, progressive ass for life.

[GingisK]

He could resign. It is his best option.

[Mouton]

“Susan Rice still suffers from unfair attacks over the Benghazi affair.”

After reading that gem, decided did not need read rest of article.

If obola removes anyone, it will be the surgeon general and the guy at the CDC saying they gave him bad advice about ebola and it is now too late to close the borders.

[Mouton]

All great minds think alike...so did I.

[PGR88]

Obama is an idiot. There is nothing he can do except continue to get smaller and more ridiculous over the next two years

[hal ogen]

Clown Prince nobama’s “team” has been (and will continue to be) a bunch of suck-ups, degenerates, chronic liars, reprobates, fools and perverts. Given how things are in WDC, he should have no difficulty recruiting replacements.