http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/11/01/obama-has-brains-just-no-character
Some excerpts:
In a “White House Memo” the grey and distinctly liberal Democratic lady actually cited the Republican National Committee jibe at America’s “bystander president” given that on the botched health care rollout and spying on friendly heads of state “his explanation boils down to this: I didn’t know.”
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NBC criticized Obama’s “seemingly hands-off management style” not just on the Obamacare website and NSA surveillance of foreign leaders, but a host of issues from Syria to the IRS targeting conservative groups to the Benghazi compound terror attack. Adding insult to injury, NBC mentioned Republican complaints about the president golfing endlessly even during crises. What is he, Eisenhower?
Not really. Ike may have enjoyed a good round (except that old pine tree on the 17th at Augusta) and exploited a gift for genial incomprehensibility to avoid embarrassment. But in a crisis he took responsibility....Compare and contrast Obama’s duh-what klunk on Angela Merkel.
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NBC quoted former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod that Obama “needs to show … anger” over the botched health rollout, as though the problem were that he wasn’t visibly frustrated. It’s not. It’s that he’s visibly clueless. “Yes we can” turned into “I know nothing, nothing.” It’s not Ike in the White House, it’s Sgt. Schultz. And remember, that’s not what his critics say. It’s what he says.
The Times piece allowed that, “Aides dismissed suggestions that Mr. Obama did not pay enough attention” to Obamacare or spying. But if so he’s a cunning and dishonest practitioner of the strategy of implausible deniability now commonplace from Dalton McGuinty on deleted gas plant e-mails to Stephen Harper on the Wright-Duffy imbroglio.
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What he’s missing is character.
Some excerpts:
In a “White House Memo” the grey and distinctly liberal Democratic lady actually cited the Republican National Committee jibe at America’s “bystander president” given that on the botched health care rollout and spying on friendly heads of state “his explanation boils down to this: I didn’t know.”
...
NBC criticized Obama’s “seemingly hands-off management style” not just on the Obamacare website and NSA surveillance of foreign leaders, but a host of issues from Syria to the IRS targeting conservative groups to the Benghazi compound terror attack. Adding insult to injury, NBC mentioned Republican complaints about the president golfing endlessly even during crises. What is he, Eisenhower?
Not really. Ike may have enjoyed a good round (except that old pine tree on the 17th at Augusta) and exploited a gift for genial incomprehensibility to avoid embarrassment. But in a crisis he took responsibility....Compare and contrast Obama’s duh-what klunk on Angela Merkel.
...
NBC quoted former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod that Obama “needs to show … anger” over the botched health rollout, as though the problem were that he wasn’t visibly frustrated. It’s not. It’s that he’s visibly clueless. “Yes we can” turned into “I know nothing, nothing.” It’s not Ike in the White House, it’s Sgt. Schultz. And remember, that’s not what his critics say. It’s what he says.
The Times piece allowed that, “Aides dismissed suggestions that Mr. Obama did not pay enough attention” to Obamacare or spying. But if so he’s a cunning and dishonest practitioner of the strategy of implausible deniability now commonplace from Dalton McGuinty on deleted gas plant e-mails to Stephen Harper on the Wright-Duffy imbroglio.
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What he’s missing is character.
