Posted on 06/11/2013 9:11:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a candidate, Barack Obama vowed to bring a different, better kind of leadership to the dysfunctional capital. He'd make government more efficient, accountable and transparent. He'd rise above the "small-ball" nature of doing business. And he'd work with Republicans to break Washington paralysis.
You can trust me, Obama said back in 2008. And — for a while, at least — a good piece of the country did.
But with big promises often come big failures — and the potential for big hits to the one thing that can make or break a presidency: credibility.
A series of mounting controversies is exposing both the risks of political promise-making and the limits of national-level governing while undercutting the core assurance Obama made from the outset: that he and his administration would behave differently.
The latest: the government's acknowledgement that, in a holdover from the Bush administration and with a bipartisan Congress' approval and a secret court's authorization, it was siphoning the phone records of millions of American citizens in a massive data-collection effort officials say was meant to protect the nation from terrorism. This came after the disclosure that the government was snooping on journalists.
Also, the IRS' improper targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status has spiraled into a wholesale examination of the agency, including the finding that it spent $49 million in taxpayer money on 225 employee conferences over the past three years.
At the same time, Obama's immigration reform agenda is hardly a sure thing on Capitol Hill, and debate starting this week on the Senate floor is certain to show deep divisions over it. Gun control legislation is all but dead. And he's barely speaking to Republicans who control the House, much less working with them...
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
most of these scandals now are rabbits they released for us to chase so we forget about that Obama ordered the IRS to rig the election for Obama and the democrats/socialists in the Senate.
Wow..! Better put some ice on that...!
(Zips pants up with gusto)
Democrat President: controversies
Nah, the "news" media aren't biased!
Is this what they call damning with faint praise?
To what end?
srbfl
Exactly my thought. The only blow torch is from ObaMao torching the constitution.
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What is significant is not that the elephant dances well. It is that the elephant dances.
Not good for Zero. He needs the MSM.
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Associated Press is a Democrat "mainstream" newsroom to the core, so they must have published this mildly critical editorial with an ulterior motive in mind. I smell a whitewash and a spike coming.
Associated Press and the rest of the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms never vetted the "community organizer" from the Chicago ghetto, and why would they? Everything anybody wanted to know about Obama was right there in his two autobiographies, right? So... what's to vet? The Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms have always been happy to simply take the word of their African communist president - - on everything.
Meanwhile...
Associated Press Devotes 11 Reporters to "Fact Check" Sarah Palin Book
He could end up “damaging the legacy”?
His legacy has been one of ramming his agenda down our throats and ignoring the Constitution. His current behavior is consistent with his past behavior and will not destroy his “legacy”.
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