Obama Says That Everyone in the Obama Bubble Agreed with His Prisoner Swap Decision

Political Kryptonite ^ | June 8, 2014 | Fred Dardick

[FredDardick]

In an interview with NBC News Obama reiterated the now popular talking point that everyone in government was “unanimous” in their support for the release of five mass murdering terrorists for one American deserter. Obama told NBC News, “I make no apologies for it. It was a unanimous decision among my principals in my government.”

Good for him. So now we’re supposed to be impressed that all of the Obama cheerleaders in the West Wing jumped on board with the dumbest prisoner exchange in American history?

Is there any real question as to why Obama didn’t give Congress prior notice of the prisoner swap? It had nothing to do with putting Bowe Bergdhal’s life in danger or fear of the exchange leaking to the press. He knew darn well that there would be tremendous bipartisan opposition to his plan of letting five of the most dangerous criminals on the planet go in exchange for a deserter at best (whether Bergdhal is a traitor as well remains to be seen).

It would also kill the talking point that the US government was “unanimous” with his decision. Instead Obama makes the prisoner swap and puts out the information that Congress had been consulted on the Bergdhal exchange for “some time”, a bogus claim that got debunked in record time. When that falsehood failed the administration moved on to the Bergdhal’s health was in danger so it had to be done quickly routine, because what difference, at this point, does another lie make?

When you are relying on feedback from Susan “Sunday Show Liar” Rice, Valerie “Chicago Slumlord” Jarrett and Samantha “Send US Troops to Israel” Power, you really shouldn’t be surprised when things work out badly.

That’s why Congress is supposed to play the role of “advice and consent” to the executive branch. This way the President can get counsel from outside his bubble of yes-men and “those mom-jeans don’t look bad on you at all” sycophants, so hopefully he doesn’t make unbelievably stupid decisions.

But what else would you expect from a President who has a nasty habit of skipping his daily intelligence briefings and likes to play check-the-box when it comes to running the federal government?

[Lazamataz]

Here is a blogger who does it right. You will be rewarded with a blog visit.

[GOPJ]

So now we’re supposed to be impressed that all of the Obama cheerleaders in the West Wing jumped on board with the dumbest prisoner exchange in American history?

If Obama's people all agreed with 'the dumbest prisoner exchange' in our history - that alone tells us something scary...

I suspect Obama felt this bizarre choice was better than the alternative. An unnamed alternative we don't know and might never discover... But his people/cheerleaders wouldn't know about that - so what's their excuse?

[justa-hairyape]

And that is the problem. He has surrounded himself now with yes men, yes women and yes what evers. A President should always be given the opposing point of view. In fact one of his people should have disagreed just so he could have become aware of the potential down sides to the trade. Apparently no one even told him.

[humblegunner]

Here is a blogger who does it right.

I noticed.

That's why Fred has never heard a word from me, which is kind of a prize in itself.

[PoloSec]

Why would anyone expect descent from the Kings Court?

[Lazamataz]

That's why Fred has never heard a word from me, which is kind of a prize in itself.

Hear that, Fred? I've been trying to never hear a word from humblegunner for *years*. LOL :)

[blackdog]

Here's a rule which should apply to all Obama staffers.

Before giving advice on a foreign matter, they must first identify the country on a map of the globe, with all names redacted from said map. If they can't identify the country, name it's capitol, it's monetary system, principal exports and imports, and religious distribution, they should be barred from speaking whatsoever.

[parmamenian]

The emperor with no clothes maybe?

[ExTexasRedhead]

Then let them go to Afganistan and be fair game for the Taliban.

[5th MEB]

MY PRINCIPALS-—MY GOVERNMENT ?????????????????????
Oh stupid me; all these years I thought it was supposed to be a government “Of the People, By the People, For the People”.
I guess all that stupid history; done and written by evil old white men that I was forced to read as a kid was just all wrong, and a lie huh.

[RobinOfKingston]

This is known as the Pauline Kael syndrom.

Kael has often been quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election, that she "couldn't believe Nixon had won", since no one she knew had voted for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Kael#Alleged_Nixon_quote

[clearcarbon]

"Everyone in the Obama Bubble Agreed with His Prisoner Swap Decision"

Choom Gang in a sealed microbus?

[Graewoulf]

“Taliban Mullah in Chief” Hussein Obama has chosen “Secretary of Defending the Taliban” Hagel to continue to make Grand Bargains with Gitmo Prisoners so that Gitmo can be closed on the last day that all US Military Personnel finally abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban.

[GeronL]

The new trial balloon is that it was not Obama but Hagel who decided. lol

[AFreeBird]

So Valerie signed off on it, or demanded it?

[Graewoulf]

With sewers or politics: S**T flows down hill!

[GeronL]

All of his Yes Men agreed