Ed Lasky, of americanthinker.com, has written a commentary on the Obama administration and its supporters that is disrespectful, sarcastic, disdainful, rude….and, sad to say, largely true.
Just how frontal is his attack? Read the first few paragraphs, and you tell me:
We are led by a bunch of juveniles — led straight into a ditch that will take a long time to crawl out of, assuming we get a good president in 2017 (a big assumption given the ongoing slow motion Clinton coronation).
The White House apparently believes the way to lead is by getting out the coloring books and cameras. True, we live in a visual age with a SnapChat attention span but does an agenda have to be reduced to the lowest common denominator? Can\’t the greatest communicator on earth educate and inform instead of distract and prevaricate? Can\’t a team that takes many billions of dollars of taxpayer money come up with a better way to formulate and pitch policy than relying on tweets and silliness?
Instead we get comments such as “dude that was two years ago” to explain away the Benghazi disaster and divert blame from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton from a former van driver turned National Security Council spokesman, Tommy Vietor. We get the same drivel from failed short-story writer Ben Rhodes — who has become a key foreign policy makers because … I cannot figure that answer out, but it might have something to do with sycophancy, a talent for lying that Obama (who, after all, lied about his own mother\’s death for political purposes and clearly feels no compunction about serial lying ) values in people, and a brother who heads up CBS News.
Talent is a job-killer for people wanting to work in the White House. But skill at Adobe Photoshop and reducing complex foreign policy and other issues to 140 characters helps. Simple-mindedness is a must, along with a touch of mendacity.
For this is the mindset of the adolescents running this administration. Of course, this team knows their base the best, so maybe they calculate (and they are a calculating lot) that this is the way to build support among many Democrats.
See what I mean?
Yes, Mr. Lasy is viciously insulting toward the President and the people around him. But – and this is the problem – what part of his screed is untrue? What part is inaccurate?
Further on, Lasky says:
Barack Obama is notoriously insular. He won\’t talk with experts or leaders from not just the Republican Party but also the Democratic Party. But he did make time to chat with the Pimp with a Limp; hang out with rappers who just happened to drop by the White House situation room — a historic room turned into a rapper selfie photo shoot; play hoops with NBA stars and, needless to say, golfs with his chef, among others.
Good Grief, as Charlie Brown might comment: there is no shame in this White House and certainly no respect for the office or the responsibilities of the presidency.
Here, again, Lasky is extremely insulting to President Obama. But are his comments beyond what is fair?
Well, let me ask again, as I did earlier: what part of the above excerpt is not true?
The wheels are coming off our country. And President Obama\’s answers are, (among others):
-a short, wholly insincere statement about the ISIS beheading, in casual clothes, before immediately returning to vacation instead of meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or State, or Homeland Security,
-airstrikes without ground support that have not stopped ISIS one single bit – as it commences mass slaughter in Kobani, Syria. with our “coalition” partner, Turkey, ordering its troops to do nothing but watch the action from immediately across the border,
-a raft of lies about the effect of ObamaCare on people who want to keep their plans,
-sending illegal aliens to cities around the country instead of deporting them,
-trotting out the vacuous CDC head, Tom Freiden, to try and convince us that ebola is nothing to worry about – while allowing air traffic to continue from the most heavily affected countries, and sends 4,000 of our troops into those countries (can anyone ever forgive him if any of these troops contract ebola?),
-etc. etc. etc…
.. and then off to the next fundraiser or round of golf.
Weeks ago, while my wife and I were at a party, one of our friends – as loyal a Democrat as you will ever find – quietly told me that, in his lifetime he has never seen a President so overmatched for the job.
Why would a staunch Democrat say that? Because he is more worried about the country than he is about artificially pumping up a failed, incompetent President. And, based on comments I have heard from other partisan Democrat friends over the past half year or so, he has a surprising amount of company.
They are living proof that Democrats do not have to mind-numbingly either rationalize or ignore the disaster that is this presidency.
How I wish there were more of them.
