Per Oprah: The presidency “holds a sense of authority and governance over us all”. Last time I checked, our elected officials are public servants not kings and queens.
“What are they thinking?” That question rattled through my head while watching the President, the NAACP and Tom Vilsack all independently mess up a situation that now rises to the level of absurd. Race continues to be an issue the Obama administration has been unable to tame, and it was one of his strongest talking points on the campaign trail. Who would have thought that this silver-tongued politician would find himself in so much hot water on this issue!
I’m not convinced Shirley Sherrod is a racist (but the reaction from some NAACP conference goers in the same video makes me wonder about them), but I’m very convinced that her performance in this whole mess was less than stellar. Doesn’t this all make you believe we REALLY don’t need a Department of Agriculture?
It looks like Dr. Donald Berwick will end up running Medicare and Medicaid, being appointed while the Senate is recessing. Despite the facts that this position has been vacant since 2006, the Senate is only out of session for two weeks, and members of the Senate are still awaiting for Dr. Berwick to provide responses to some inquiries, the president must think it’s critical not to wait and press forward.
Or, he could be worried that a confirmation hearing would re-hash all the awful things that Obamacare stands for.
The radical, liberal agenda of Pelosi, Reid and Obama is bankrupting the country. While they toiled on health care legislation, unemployment and US debt continued to grow. Now, we hear the President is getting cold feet on the topic of Israel while he’s disarming our nuclear weapons.
All of these reasons are prime examples of why the Democratic party is completely out of touch with reality, and why all Democrats should be voted out of office summarily in November. They are too dangerous at the helm.
So Harry Reid uses the term “negro” and it’s all cool? Imagine if Rush Limbaugh used the same strange, antiquated and odd term. The President said Reid’s choice of words was “unartful” and the rest of the world thinks that something is fishy. Maybe it’s time for another beer summit.
Although Candidate Obama pledged to “broadcast” the health care negotiations, President Obama has been singing a different tune. Hey, the idea sounded good at the time for a candidate who wanted to remain popular…wanted to bring about change.
Now, the President realizes that little is done in public in Washington–the law making process is like making sausage, and we’re about to have the worst tasting sausage shoved in front of us.
There he is sans-necktie, behind the presidential podium from his vacation in Hawaii addressing the nation on the “alleged” terrorist who just lit his underpants on fire. By the way, this address comes three days late right before another round of golf in the Pacific haven. Had G.W. Bush done this…well, it would have been a field day for the media. Another botched opportunity for the Commander in Chief who has been a complete disappointment on national security. It seems to me that he sees this as an annoyance–a distraction from his domestic dismantling of the US economy.
Then there’s Janet Napolitano, the grossly incompetent HS Chief who flip flopped on how well the system worked, er, didn’t work to stop this lunatic from lighting himself on fire. Where’s the outrage for this hack who obviously isn’t cracked up to be the head of this very important division of government? When will we start profiling terrorists before they board flights headed to this country? Is it just me, or are these “leaders” not taking their jobs very seriously?