Posted on 10/02/2014 7:07:50 AM PDT by servo1969
The quintessential question of Watergate was “what did the President know and when did he know it?” Obamagate, the vast scandal that encompasses an entire presidency, offers a preemptive answer.
Obama didn’t know anything and he never knew it. At least not until, like smuggling weapons to druglords, bugging journalists, IRSing his political enemies and killing vets, his right hand found out about what his left hand was doing from the morning paper.
After skipping 58% of his daily intelligence briefings in Term 1 and 59% of them in Term 2, he went on 60 Minutes and blamed intelligence agencies for being caught by surprise by ISIS. The intelligence had been there all along, but Obama wasn’t just missing his 3 AM phone calls — he was also skipping the 3 PM phone calls while golfing with the CEO of Comcast, friendly hedge fund managers and assorted lobbyists.
When the media, in the person of loyalist New Yorker editor David Remnick, tried to do its newfound duty by briefing him on the ISIS takeover of an Iraqi city, Obama snarked back by calling ISIS a jayvee team. Snark had proven to be an effective national security strategy for him before when he won a presidential debate by dismissing Mitt Romney’s concerns about national security with lines like, “The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back” and “We also have fewer horses and bayonets.”
The media cheered the spectacle of a real life version of a Saturday Night Live or a Daily Show skit while licking its lips at the thought of a President Stewart or Colbert ruling through pre-scripted quips. And the problem was solved until ISIS took over much of Iraq. The ISIS version of a snappy comeback was to call Obama “a White House slave” and a “mule” which sounds really racist and doesn’t translate well.
What the ISIS standup act lacked in comic timing, it made up for by besieging Baghdad, bringing back slavery and taking selfies with severed heads. Between his golf games and vacations, Obama finally penciled in a war, declaring, “The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.”
And it only took him 6 years to figure that out. Talk about an intelligence failure.
Obama botched his own disastrous ObamaCare program turning it into an even more expensive mess than it already was. Once again he claimed that he only found out about the problem from the media. Just like he found out that his VA turnaround was killing more vets than Al Qaeda was from that same media.
Let’s take Obama at his word for a moment and assume that he really is a clueless dilettante who doesn’t know anything about anything until it appears in bold type on the front page of the New York Times. But then what exactly does he do besides give speeches at fundraisers, golf, vacation and blame Congress for not passing some gimmick bill that even his own party loyalists wouldn’t touch in an attempt to divert attention from the latest disaster he only found out about through the media?
He tried to force amnesty through Congress and instead caused a border crisis. After blowing a billion dollars on a contractor with a top family friend executive, the ObamaCare website went 404. His stimulus funds went into the trash. His Green Energy recipients went into bankruptcy court. He’s still claiming credit for fixing unemployment by convincing the unemployed to drop out of the economy.
And now he’s stuck being a third-rate Bush, bombing Iraq while trying to explain that the Al Qaeda he’s bombing now is not the Al Qaeda he claimed to have defeated when he was running for reelection.
There’s no doubt that he did a great deal for the left by stewarding an expansion of the regulatory bureaucracy and scoring lots of points in the culture war, but he could have managed to achieve the former by sticking to his old career of filing frivolous lawsuits and pulled off the latter by becoming one of Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central second bananas before graduating to his own spinoff show.
No one needed him in the White House. If the Democratic Party was that desperate to dodge every gaffe, scandal and criticism with cries of racism, it could have gotten some other black guy. There are twenty million of them. And any one of them would have done a better job and played a lot less golf.
And now after running for office as the “Smartest guy in the room,” the Nobel Prize winner has chosen to become a born-again idiot.
With his wartime latte salutes and his post-war announcement golf games, Obama is aiming to be seen as an amiable incompetent idiot to preserve his likability rating. But that’s only half-true. There is nothing amiable about his incompetence or his idiocy.
The roots of both can be found in his arrogance.
Obama claimed, “I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters… I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors … I’m a better political director than my political director.” It went without saying that he also understood legislating better than Congress and the Constitution better than the Supreme Court. He understood website programming better than the programmers which is why the ObamaCare website testing and redesigns happened inside the government.
He even insisted that he was a better ISIS Jihadist than the actual Jihadists, offering his advice as “an adviser to ISIS” to a coterie of big media types. And yet if ISIS ever did make him its Caliph, it would be reduced to two guys hiding in a kebab shack in Yemen before the month was out.
Obama can do everything better than everyone else, which is why he can never get anything right. He assumed that he would rule as a genius surrounded by incompetent idiots. And he was half right.
The HHS and VA secretaries were purged over failures of leadership that came from the top down. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton resigned half a year after Benghazi. The Attorney General stepped down after a U.S. District Court judge began applying serious pressure over Fast and Furious docs.
If we begin listing the top generals, defense and security officials who were forced out to cover up for Obama’s failures at all things military, we would be here all day.
Having thrown everyone else under the bus, Obama is gently climbing under it for a short nap. Then he’ll be back to change the subject from his latest failure to a proposal that is doomed to become a failure while urging Americans not to be cynical about all his past failures.
The left never understood that its policy failures come from its bad intentions. It’s incompetent because it’s malicious.
Obama is blaming the intelligence officials for not giving him the briefings on ISIS that he wouldn’t attend. But he knew all about ISIS. He chose not to listen to avoid exactly what is happening now.
As a born again idiot, Obama maintains a layer of plausible deniability over his incompetence. But it’s an ignorance of choice. He chooses not to contemplate the consequences of his actions and instead uses the media as a warning system to tell him that the latest crisis has penetrated the liberal bubble.
The left chooses not to know what it doesn’t want to know. It chose not to know what the USSR was doing. It chose not to know what ISIS was up.
It chooses not to know because then it would have to do something.
Obama didn’t want to do anything about ISIS. He didn’t want to do anything about the VA. He didn’t want to acknowledge knowing anything about the IRS targeting and he didn’t care about how well or how badly the ObamaCare website would work until he realized its impact on his approval ratings.
His incompetence and ignorance are expressions of his contempt. His policies implode because he never bothered to understand how they would impact real people.
He chooses not to know, because he chose not to care.
“The left never understood that its policy failures come from its bad intentions. It’s incompetent because it’s malicious.” Boy, great article with some great lines.
Obama is not the antichrist but his rise and fall is a great example of the deception that will overtake the world when that man of lawlessness comes on the scene. The country was head over heels in love with Barry (as he was with himself) through the election and into his first few years but into his second term he has been revealed, even to those who worshipped him as savior and lord, for the evil monstrosity that he is. Of course, not all were fooled but there’s a pattern here.
Jesus said, “Watch out that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name,.. At that time many will turn away from the faith... and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.” Next time it will be with lying signs and wonders, the promise of peace without repentance, the rejection of all that is godly, and the unleashing of pure evil on the world. Spiritual discernment is probably the number one character quality that is missing from the population today. Difficult days are ahead for all of us. Thankfully the rightful King has promised to return and set things right.
Idiot?, “we the people” have failed our constitutional mandate, to overthrow a incompetent, corrupt, criminal government, allowing one man to run roughshod over the entire nation.
And we call him an idiot!
FWIW, that's been my take on the Obama presidency since the beginning. IMO whoever's on the other end of his blackberry/teleprompter is more likely the person employing a Cloward Piven strategy.
He really us THAT stupid and ignorant but sadly, 47% of Americans agree with the above - how else could a complete moron like him be elected?
I think you hit it on the head here. Obama is not nearly as bright as some make him out to be. The guy is a mental midget, but his handlers are rather genius in their use of him as a very effective tool. To see Obama’s tactical agenda, keep a close eye on Jarrett and her close cronies. For the strategic view, follow the money and power trail. There you will find Soros and several other rich goons.
The NSA has so far done the bidding of the powers that be, but there may be a seething hidden volcano there that could erupt in an open power war sooner than we may wish. Also, the Secret Service and much of the military may be about to break ranks. This could be a very interesting next two years.
“Another would be he’s achieving his goals.”
Absolutely, and with air support from the media, he’s doing his stealth agenda routine while making it seem as if the prior administration was completely corrupt and incompetent.
IMHO
obama can do everything better than everyone else, which is why he can never get anything right. He assumed that he would rule as a genius surrounded by incompetent idiots.
But it turns out he is the half wit.
I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently…If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view…My sister is half-Indonesian. I traveled there all the way through my college years. And so I’m intimately concerned with what happens in these countries and the cultures and perspective these folks have. And those are powerful tools for us to be able to reach out to the world…then I think the world will have confidence that I am listening to them and that our future and our security is tied up with our ability to work with other countries in the world that will ultimately makes us safer… Nov. 11, 2007
You have to come to the conclusion that they just don't care, agree with his policies or they are so corrupt that BO's got them good with NSA data that they dare not speak.
Or they are as corrupt and as immoral.
Mr. Greenfield can look forward to 7 years worth of painful anal probing by unionized ideologues at the IRS.
Speaking of the Sultan’s sister—— who paid the scores of thousands of dollars for her to go to Barnard College? Have never seen that answered.
They are one and the same, in fact, married or blood relatives in many cases. The Media is Obama.
“Why not, well, since he is acquiescing to what he does without a peep, it is obvious to me he agrees i.e. he was for unfettered immigration and who was it who proposed the stimulus??’
Georgio II also named the CEO of Goldman Sachs (Hank Paulson) Secretary of the Treasury and allowed him free reign during the financial crisis. Paulson immediately took care of his banking buddies at the expense of the taxpayer and the retirement savings of thrifty citizens. The banks were bailed out and paying big bonuses again within a year. The taxpayer was left with billions in debt, zero interest rate on savings, and a sinking currency.
He is the idiot of idiots in the room that is for sure. In all my 60+ years on this planet I have NEVER met a more IDIOT in public office. I have for many a year believed Jimmy Carter was the biggest idiot in the room, and he still ranks right up there as he is still and idiot and in the room, but this IDIOT is the IDIOT of IDIOTS. He has that tattooed on his skinny, carmel colored @$$!!!
"In the times that I was involved in speeches for various folks in the previous administration they and those around him were highly attuned to hyperbole and statements such the one Obama made about Ebola. Now people can crack wise about Iraqi intelligence and the like, but from my experience those officials and senior advisers I dealt with always were asking: “Is this right?” “Should I be saying this?” “Can I say this? Or should I say be saying it another way?” “I don’t want to be out on that limb.” I get no sense that anyone over there [in the Obama White House] ever asks those questions — about speeches, timing of remarks, guests who surround him for said utterances, etc." -- Jim Geraghty, National Review
They never will, unless someone holds a metaphorical gun to their head. Even then, it is a tossup.
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