{"id":8976,"date":"2009-03-20T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:14:52","slug":"obama-incompetent-or-dishonest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8976","title":{"rendered":"Obama; Incompetent or dishonest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Dinan of the Washington Times<\/a> notices a disturbing pattern of Obama aides running interference for the President in the recent spate of missteps of his administration;<\/p>\n

To hear his camp tell it Thursday, President Obama has been in the dark on his administration’s controversial efforts to force veterans to use their private insurance for treatments and to clear the way for large bonuses to be paid to the executives of the failed insurance giant AIG.<\/p>\n

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was the latest to offer the president-didn’t-know defense, suggesting to a Minnesota audience that Mr. Obama was “unaware” of the veterans plan until the president floated it to veterans groups leaders this past Monday and stirred a major controversy.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner joined the bandwagon, saying it was he and not the president who deserved the blame for letting the bonuses to American International Group Inc. proceed.<\/p>\n

“It’s my responsibility,” Mr. Geithner said, taking the blame just days after the White House leaked reports that it didn’t know about the bonuses until after they were issued. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I noticed the same thing when The Hill reported<\/a> that the president wasn’t present at the 1PM meeting with the Veterans Service Organization when Rahm Emanuel told the VSOs that the plan was being withdrawn. It looked like the President was being kept insulated from the issue that suddenly became toxic.<\/p>\n

The fact remains that we have two conclusions that we can choose from in regards to this meltdown of the administration – is the president incompetent or dishonest?<\/p>\n

In St. Cloud, Mr. Biden, responding to a veteran’s question, blamed budget bean counters for trying to save money with the care proposal that died Wednesday after an outcry from lawmakers from both parties and veterans groups. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Obama couldn’t hear the words that were coming out of his mouth? Or did Emanuel have his hand up Obama’s backside manipulating his mouth? That’s not the way some in the room remembered the meeting;<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama “refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it,” [American Legion Commander David K.] Rehbein added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So some invisible, nameless “bean counter” gets the blame for something that was clearly an executive decision made in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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