signature healthcare plan which Obama promised would
“fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
"I'm working on it right now."
Posted on 11/01/2013 4:54:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama loves to golf. President Obama loves to campaign. President Obama loves to hobnob with celebrities. In fact, President Obama loves all the trappings of the presidency except, it would seem, actually doing the job of being President.
As President, Barack Obama is every bit the bomb-thrower you’d expect from a progressive activist community organizer – all sizzle, no steak. He can campaign like a champion, present old, failed ideas as though they’d never been uttered before, and tell a lie with a straight face as well as anyone if Hollywood. But what he’s no good at is managing or paying attention, both kind of important traits for a president.
Presidents don’t need to micro-manage, nor should they. But they must care about the happenings on their watch, appoint the best, most trustworthy people they can, and set the tone and direction for their administration. Nothing about how President Obama has conducted himself while in office demonstrates he cares about any of these things.
The media has spun the Obama Presidency as the harmonic convergence between genius and innovation, yet not one aspect of it has been either. As a leader, the President of the United States has been an absentee landlord.
On Obamacare, routinely referred to his “signature legislation,” the President has been hopelessly disconnected, appearing disinterested, and negligent as a leader.
The launch of Obamacare was a disaster by any unit of measure. But the news that the President only found out about problems after the launch is the most troubling part. Think what you will about the law itself, that the man steering trillions of our tax dollars and wresting control of 1/6th of the economy wouldn’t bother to ask how things were going in the run up to launch shows a lack of seriousness and interest in his job.
But this lack of seriousness and disconnect from the job of being President is hardly being displayed for the first time this October. It’s the latest in a pattern of either disinterest in the duties of his office, a bit if willful ignorance for plausible deniability or simply a lie.
The President told CNN he’d found out about Fast and Furious, the gun running debacle his Justice Department created, from reports in the media. He claimed to have found out about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his political opponents through the media as well.
What else doesn’t the President know, and why doesn’t his staff want him to know it?
The President’s Chief of Staff knew about the IRS scandal before it was made public, as did the White House Council (essentially the President’s lawyer). We’re expected to believe neither thought to tell him? That’s what we’ve been told, so if it’s true they should’ve been fired immediately. If it’s not, we’ve been lied to for political cover. Neither option is acceptable.
That no one in the Justice Department, especially the Attorney General, would inform the President that they’d forced gun sales to Mexican drug cartels, never tracked them and they’ve been turning up at murder scenes across the southwest and Mexico, including at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, is an outrage. For the President to casually mention that he’d found out about it from the media is disgusting. And for no one to be fired for keeping such important and embarrassing information from him is inexcusable. Unless the official story isn’t true.
You fire incompetence. You can’t fire people doing what they’re told.
Actually, this administration doesn’t fire incompetence either.
National Journal’s Matthew Cooper wrote a piece entitled, “Why Obama Won’t Fire (Kathleen) Sebelius” about the failed Secretary of Health and Human Services who is overseeing the slow-motion train wreck of the Obamacare roll-out. He writes that Sebelius’s safety in her position can be attributed to things unrelated to her job performance. “Chalk part of it up to the hands-off approach Obama takes when it comes to his Cabinet and a self-preserving one favored by Sebelius's. Throw in a mutual affection that's just strong enough to keep them bound together, mix in their shared love of basketball, and it's a formula for survival.”
In other words, the President doesn’t care if someone is good at their job, he cares that he likes to be around them. The White House has become a clubhouse.
It’s not as though Sebelius was new to the job or thrust into an untenable situation, she oversaw the writing of the bill and has a free hand in writing the regulations for the law. This is as much her baby as it is the President’s. But he likes having her around, so millions of people losing their insurance and hundreds of millions wasted on a failed website later, they can talk hoops and it’s all good.
The President of the United States is not a symbolic position like the Queen of England, it’s not a tourist attraction. At least it didn’t used to be that way. Barack Obama travels the country giving pep-rally style speeches, attends fundraisers and golfs. He wholeheartedly embraces the trappings available to the Office of the President. What he doesn’t do is his job. Or this is him doing it and doing it the best he can, which is even worse.
We actually don’t want a collectivist president to be engaged and effective. Just as we don’t actually want the Ocare website running well.
Sorta the way we wouldn’t really care for the trains to be efficient in getting people to the gulag.
I don’t believe for a minute he had no idea about things like the IRS till he read it in the paper. He had his hand deep in it all, I’m sure.
Spot on!
It is ironic that the only thing he has acknowledged being deeply involved in - the attack on the Bin Laden compound - is probably the one thing where he actually was the last to find out. For that, they had to pull him off the golf course when the operation went down.
The instructions to the writers of the Obamacare software must have included Ms Pelosi’s message to Congress: You have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
In this case to the consumer: You have to sign up before you find out what your cost and coverage is going to be.
I think the software writers found that instruction to be as difficult as discovering the perpetual motion machine or reproducing a Mobius strip.
IOW, IMPOSSIBLE
Exactly.
Think about how bad things would be screwed up if he was engaged.
"I'm working on it right now."
"Carney hasn't told you yet---but I was recently diagnosed w/ 'transient global amnesia.'"
"But only on the subjects of Obamacare, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and my golf score."
"I'm having an episode right now----relapsing back to
my days as a tuba player in my high school marching band.'
3 more years unless 1.5B bullets and no military leadership back to stop him from totally usurping power and ditching the Constitution...wow.
“President Obama loves to golf. President Obama loves to campaign. President Obama loves to hobnob with celebrities. In fact, President Obama loves all the trappings of the presidency except, it would seem, actually doing the job of being President. “
Pretty much what you’d expect from an Affirmative Action baby.
Having to perform in the job is a distraction to him from what he’d rather be doing.
Economy sucks with no prospect of getting better...
Millions of people out of work...
Taxes at all time high and going higher...
Millions of people being fed, housed, and transported by government programs...
Millions of people losing their health coverage...
Lies being told as truths on a daily basis...
For the citizens of this country it is not a good situation...
BUT
doubleplusgood...
For a progressive democrat (read socialist here) it is a field day and business as usual...
Obama has tens of thousands of operatives spread throughout the government and the military engineering our demise. He can play golf all he wants. As long as Obamacare stands; our economy is crushed by regulatory burden; free markets are suffocated; the energy sector is killed off; extreme social agenda is implemented; our world standing trashed; and our foreign policy alienates our allies and emboldens our enemies, OBAMA HAS SUCCEEDED. HE IS WINNING.
Obama is a Communist and he is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams. However, if Obamacare implodes, we have a chance to clean his clock.
He wants to BE President, he doesn’t to DO President.
He wants to BE President, he doesn’t want to DO President.
The only real job Odumbo ever had was at an ice cream shop in Hawaii. He admits he’s lazy. And we know he’s stupid.
Nowhere Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w
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