My view? Is that there is a distinct lack of “adult supervision” inside the thinking of this administration.
Think about the “Julia” website as my main example. This was pretty clearly done by a cadre of youngsters who work for 0bama in some capacity and were “turned loose” in order to create the thing. It was flashy, snappy, in terms of execution. But the messaging behind it was unsupervised, it produced an impression that this admin doesn’t really think that individuals can make it on their own, and wants to sell the lifetime government dependency orientation. And this was the impression that even liberals came away with. This is my point, that there was no adult supervision. They were tasked and let loose and came up with a flashy result, and nobody of what we would call maturity sat down with the final version and pondered what the take-away was going to be by just simply chewing on it for 24-48 hours before unleashing it.
And how about the under-30 amnesty deal? Think about it. OK, so on the surface it’s a great thing for the beneficiaries. But forget not that those “kids” are going to have to identify their PARENTS within the application process. The parents don’t have the immunity from deportation. And they are going to have to be declared illegal, or, they will have achieved citizenship sometime AFTER the kid applies...but that is going to be the exception IMHO. After all, if they were citizens, the kid would be citizens, so, the very act of applying for this “amnesty” identifies the parents as illegal! In order to take advantage of the program, the kids are in effect going to have to rat out their parents! They gonna do that?
The 0bama admin comes out with this stuff and my take on it is it’s just not very well thought out. In fact it’s not thought out hardly at all. The slogans are bumper-sticker depth. And frankly, the thinking is, too. It is reflexive and it isn’t well thought out. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that. Consistent picture?
Same with the F&F executive order. They could not have planned this from the beginning, they thought they could stonewall and obfuscate and get away with the type of misdirection that comes from redacting entire documents until some indefinite time in the future; perhaps after the attention has shifted elsewhere. Yeah, you submitted a document in response to a subpena or a request by Issa, but the whole thing is blacked out! They literally fell into a trap of their own making, now immutably cementing 0bama to the cover-up by asserting excutive privelege. They did not count on a no-let-up pursuit from Issa, which is dumb, because he has proven his relentlessness. But even more ironically, they did not adequately ponder the implication of issuing the executive order. It was done in a hurry, and I’ll bet you $5 they did not realize the consequence that because ONLY the prezzy can issue such an order, it thusly must be he who has the stuff to hide.
I believe this is a consistent theme and characteristic within this admin. Very simply, there is no adult supervision, their stuff is ad hoc, it is simply not well thought out. They are so arrogant, yet so amateurish, they think they can get away with misdirection or changing the subject, or war on women or millionaires and billionaires or social justice, or green jobs, or policemen and teachers, anything to change the topic matter. Just pick the next Alinsky tactic on the list and go with it. That well is running dry.
Excellent comments! I agree that there's a serious lack of direction in the WH, but I think it's not simply lack of supervision, but stupidity on the part of the folks who think they're pulling the strings.
Obama really does think he's special. He's actually nuts, but nutty people often think they're special.
And everybody who works for him came in with the impression that it was going to be the time for the "ajuste de cuentas," the settling of accounts, with the enemies they had fantasized about destroying since 1968.
Obama is part of the post-1968 generation, but he is somebody who was in a radical leftist time-warp, which is why the nearly 70 yr old Bill Ayers still seems to Obama to be on the cutting edge.
Also, the main problem is that Mr. Choom Gang simply isn't very smart.
Wicked accurate appraisal of the situation.
Spot on.
Couldn’t help but think of this after reading your post——”...there is a distinct lack of “adult supervision...”
Isaiah 3:4—
“and I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.”
“They are so arrogant, yet so amateurish, they think they can get away with misdirection or changing the subject, or war on women or millionaires and billionaires or social justice, or green jobs, or policemen and teachers, anything to change the topic matter.”
It has always worked for them before. Between the race card and the protective MSM, they have always gotten away with it before.