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“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”— Will Rogers Has there ever been a president in the history of America who knew less than President Obama? With each new crisis and scandal, Mr. Obama tells Americans that he just didn’t know. He didn’t know the Veterans Administration was letting America’s veterans languish and die unattended — he learned about it in the newspaper. He didn’t know the Justice Department was trolling phone records of members of the U.S. media. He didn’t know the ATF was running guns into Mexico;...

Obama knows nothing, sees nothing, and hears nothing unless his lapdogs bark, then his ears perk up. Not exactly using a hunting dog to flush out the truth, is he? Kind of reminds me of that famous Will Rogers quote: “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.” The head of a government that has the most sophisticated spying apparatus ever created can monitor who we talk to, what we talk about, how many twinkies our kids eat and the calories we consume, where we travel, etc. etc., yet announces...

Today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney sought to partially walk back his statement yesterday in which he said President Obama learned about the growing scandal at the Veterans Administration by watching a report on the topic on CNN. After realizing just how bad that sounded, Carney returned to the daily briefing with the White House press corps today to say that his statement was being misinterpreted. According to Carney, what he really meant to say was that the president had only heard of the “specific allegations” about misconduct at VA hospitals by watching television. But, he insisted, the president...

But of course:

President Barack Obama first learned of the scandal involving Department of Veterans Affairs hospital administrators concealing the true wait times vets faced in the press, according to a claim made by White House Press Sec. Jay Carney on Monday. While the president may have not been aware of the falsified wait lists, however, reports indicate that his administration was informed of excessive wait times at the VA as early as 2008. Obama even campaigned on the issue of VA waiting lists in 2007. “When was the president first made aware of these problems?” CNN reporter Jim Acosta asked. “These fraudulent

If a policy reform is going to come out of British Petroleum’s catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we predict it will emerge in the outlines of Sarah Palin’s post Wednesday on her Facebook page. That is where she sends what she calls a “message to exreme ‘environmentalists’ who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore.” Writes she: “Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented...

  Carnival of the Clueless... http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/CarnivalOfClueless.jpg   (Yeah, well I guess we're up to 'Day 69' by now, huh?  ...Sorry for being so late getting this to you.)  

    The 'Solution'...???   March 12, 2009  Some people, reportedly including at least one state governor, aren't very excited about Obama's new  'Stimulus Logo'... ...Do you suppose that might be because 'creating new logos' isn't really the type of 'LEADERSHIP' most Americans are seeking right now...? http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/ObamaEconomicRecovery_1.jpg     ...and here, of course, is the obligatory, related, 'bumper-snicker'...   http://www.seadogbytes.com/sbimages/ObamaEconomicRecoveryBump_2.jpg