Posted on 10/29/2014 6:44:46 AM PDT by blam
Roberta Rampton, Reuters
October 29, 2014
It's not often that a White House official gets mocked on both Saturday Night Live and a major daily newspaper before he makes his first public appearance.
But Ron Klain's low-profile first week as President Barack Obama's behind-the-scenes Ebola "czar" has become another attack point for a White House struggling to show it's on top of the crisis.
Since starting last Wednesday, Klain has been seen only once, in a photo op on his first day, leaving health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health - and Obama himself - to be the public "face" of the response.
The White House has declined to give details about his activities, especially what role he played as governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey undermined the White House's attempt to keep the nation calm about the risk posed by healthcare workers returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa.
"I recognize that all of you have not had a chance to see him and talk to him every day, but the president certainly has," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Tuesday about Klein.
Klain's lack of a public profile has fueled attacks by conservative critics who last week seized upon his lack of medical expertise. Klain, 53, is a lawyer and political insider who previously served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore and left the White House in 2011 to help AOL co-founder Steve Case oversee his holdings.
The White House has tried to temper expectations that Klain will emerge as a regular voice on Ebola.
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jimmie carter is happy..
I bet the Treasury Department can find where he was written a check.
Quarantined on his own petard.
The Obola administration has already unwittingly admitted themselves that he was appointed to spin the message, not to control the crisis. He’s no good at doing either job anyway.
And I’m betting he’s getting paid on a regular basis.
The most effective quarantine so far.
Didn’t this Klown also have a hand in the Solyndra ripoff?
Word spread around DC that Klain needed a sinecure. Obola hooked him up.
He's bound to have an office somewhere on the grounds.
He’s just another leftist political hack being rewarded with a paying non-job.
The whole purpose of this czar is to distribute “ebola money” to Obama’s cronys and political partners. Never let a good crises go to waste.
He already had an ebola czarina that couldn’t be found. Maybe he should hire another.
Klain doesn’t come across as some caring guy who wants to save people’s lives. Maybe Obama’s not incompetent - maybe Klain’s job will be to handle ‘tougher parts’ if this goes pandemic.
What’s the problem here? Anyone who reads Royal history can read aplenty on the concept of “Whipping Boy”. The King is infallible but to keep the subjects from revolting and to provide a means to subtly admit fault had “whipping boys” Those who would take the beating when a King screwed up. The Ebola Czar is that. Additionally, he is the “squirrel.”
Obama is a psychopomp. Truly.
As far as his Czar is concerned, his job is to ensure that America is infected with Ebola. Thats why he is scarce. Ebola czar is making plans on how to get ebola to grow exponentially in every red state he can.
Don’t believe it? Thats just the way fascism works:
Read here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Typical patronage job.
Ron Klain gets a car, travel card, per diem, office and a salary to do nothing
He’s traveling incognito on his way to Russia to introduce himself as the new Tsar.
In Obama's twisted mind, that photo op was "Mission Accomplished".
He “Quarantined” himself???
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