Monday, June 16, 2014

What will the scandal be next week that the president will know nothing about?

Op Ed Byte: June 15, 2014: When a scandal breaks, Obama learns about it from the news (probably Fox News) and gets “mad as hell.” Someone over there in that government thingie has done something bad, and our hero will not rest until something is done about it. OK, but what will be done about it? Since Obama is the executive officer of that government thingie, didn’t he know anything about these matters before he saw it on the news?
What will the scandal be next week that the president will know nothing about? Don’t ask, don’t tell, we don’t want to know. Who has created some of the worst foreign policy disasters in modern memory? Must have been Bush. You know, it takes a long time to correct mistakes that people made in the past, especially when the current president makes the same mistakes and then doubles down by adding a lot of incompetence into the mix.
Imagine that 10 years from now a Republican president was still blaming Obama for all his mistakes. Would the Obama sycophants still be saying, “Yup, it takes a long time to clean up the messes left by a previous president?” Would the national media still be in total agreement or entirely silent on the matter?
When the next Republican president blames Obama for everything, their strategy will not be: Don’t ask, don’t tell, we don’t want to know.
When we see a man refusing to acknowledge his wife’s cheating, we don’t know whether to feel sympathy for him, be disgusted with him or to hit him over the head with more evidence.
Many of us are beginning to feel the same way when we see defenses of the current president. Should we feel sympathy for the sycophants, turn away in disgust, give them more evidence or just politely retreat back far enough so that the embarrassment that is clearly evident is not overwhelming for everyone present? [SOURCE: Dennis Clayson: Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: The media, sycophants and Obama]