We don't need an Ebola czar

CNBC ^ | 10-17-14 | Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University

[dynachrome]

There is no case for an American Ebola czar, least of all another political "fixer" who has no expertise in public health. This is just another case of the Obama administration putting politics before substance, and cowering at the idiocy and vileness of the Republicans in Congress.

We already have an enormously competent national Ebola leader: Tom Frieden at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). We already have an enormously competent coordinator for U.S. Ebola aid overseas: Raj Shah, the Administrator of USAID. What we need now is a president who backs up his front-line team.

[molson209]

I thought czars could only advise

[9YearLurker]

Don’t tell me this guy was in on Waco, too!

What is he, the Zelig of bad and corrupt Democrat politics?

[fatnotlazy]

“I can’t believe that the president, having decided this is a potential public health threat, names a czar who is not a doctor, and has no healthcare background of any kind.”

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The key here is that, despite what he says, for Obama, this isn't a public health issue. He doesn't give a **** whether we all get sick and die. In fact, he wants to kill as many of us as he possibly can. For him it's a political crisis. He is under fire for this debacle and he needs a scapegoat so he can preserve his image among the dopes who still worship him. Blaming the Republicans isn't working so well for him this time.

[Liz]

SACHS: There is no case for an American Ebola czar who is a political "fixer" w/ no expertise in public health. ...just another case of Obama putting politics before substance....

Obama's hand-picked "Czar Klain" indicates serious tax dollars are being readied for offshore wire transfer.

"Czar Klain" Once Oversaw dispersion of billions in “Stimulus” Tax Dollars
What does "Czar Klain" know about this?

"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar stimulus.
My son and brother are gonna help my office disperse the money. "

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Offshore Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by VP Biden's relatives
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran

(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.

The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.

Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

NOTE A lawyer for Hunter Biden and James Biden told reporters the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)

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Convicted con man R. Allen Stanford used offshore corporate money to subsidize the Democratic convention in Denver. A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a Democrat convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.

"I would like to thank the Stanford Financial Group for helping to underwrite this," Clinton said to the crowd at the event. Stanford Financial was listed as the "lead benefactor" for the gathering, and Stanford was permitted to address the audience of several hundred.

The SEC charged yesterday that Stanford was running a fraudulent offshore investment scheme that may have bilked customers out of as much as $8 billion. Over the last decade, Stanford has spent more than $7 million on lobbyists and campaign contributions to Washington politics in both parties, although the vast majority of the money has gone to Democrats.

"We had no reason to believe that a very public company that was also engaged in philanthropic work might be suspect," said a spokesperson for the National Democratic Institute, Amy Dudley. (Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...

NANCY PELOSI DANCING W/ CON MAN ALAN STANFORD AT DEMOCRAT BIGDO.

Was Ron Klain at the Denver Democrat convention underwritten by con man Allan Stanford?

[I want the USA back]

Right. This appointment was made to shut us up, and to have someone who can be the fall guy when the waste hits the fan. The guy won’t care. The dems will give him another high paying job as a reward.

[FreeAtlanta]

I have been wondering what has happened to all the Obama Czars. We heard a lot about his record number of Czars in his first term, but almost nothing until now.

Did they go away, or did we get tired of reporting about them?

[The Great RJ]

Klain is a political hack whose purpose as “Ebola Czar” is to lie to the American people and keep others from telling the truth so Obama looks good. Might as well get him a fascist uniform like Baghdad Bob or Joseph Goebels used to wear

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Obama is facing his first very public crisis.

And he is utterly FAILING AT THIS.

Completely, doing the wrong things. Obama needs to very rapidly start to do the right things.

Or the GOP needs to start impeachment. Right now, Obama still has time to respond effectively to this.

But it appears a real, signficant crisis for America and the rest of the entire globe.

Obama get your act together.

LEAD AND PROTECT AMERICA.

For once in your life.

(I understand there are likely a lot I don’t know about, and I appreciate what he may have done in the past, I’m not questioning his actual intent, or the things he may have done thus far) I am not connected to our government, and I give him the benefit of the doubt in that regard. Others are welcome to respond as they see fit.

But this is a huge issue. And it is staring him right in the face.

Protect America bozo.

[Smokin' Joe]

Whenever we get a ‘czar’ for something, whatever it is, we never get rid of it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[tje]

Just a whipping boy..

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Red in Blue PA]

Re:  This is just another case of the Obama administration putting politics before substance, and cowering at the idiocy and vileness of the Republicans in Congress.

So this idiotic decision of obama is the Republicans fault. Got it/s

[goodnesswins]

IMHO...A “Czar” is merely another name for what the Mafia call hit men...he’s there to make sure everyone stays in line

[catnipman]

“We already have an enormously competent national Ebola leader: Tom Frieden at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).”

What? Is he insane? Has he not seen a SINGLE one of these videos of Frieden “in action”?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frieden+cdc

[Chgogal]

Yeah, I stopped reading right there.

[Sequoyah101]

Just another COMMISSAR. The military is swarming with them now. No telling how many are out in other places. Hacks and wackos lapping at the hog trough.

Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts

[Moorings]

idiocy and vileness of the Republicans in Congress.

Blame the republicans for democrat incompetence and lack of care. Moreover when did Jeffrey at the Earth institute last talk about the vileness of Democrats? He may have had a bit more credibility, if he had done so.

[Travis McGee]

Seems that way. He’s a very loyal Rat Party apparatchik.

I have no doubt he could tell any Rat Party lie very convincingly, and he will.

[Chgogal]

“Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University “

ROTFLMAO