Posted by
grad_1986 on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:55:26 PM
It seems that Team-O has never gotten off the road of the campaign trail. By now, their campaign bus must be pushing over 400,000 miles on it and has to be on its 10th set of tires. Obama took time to be on all the major networks minus the BIGGEST of all Fox News. Asked about everything from health-care to what he saw of the chances of the Chicago White-Sox winning another pennant (wow! who would have seen that one coming!). Most of the questioners were as strenuous as the ones on the 08 campaign trail with the exception of the George Stephanapoulus question on taxes and what constitutes a tax to Obama.
Last night the President went on David Letterman. Of course Dave is known for his hard hitting questions and holding his guests feet to the fire while staring at them in the eye to make them sweat buckets. We also know Dave for his deep understanding of the issues, his masterful handling of the english language and his full understanding of what is on all Americans hearts and minds across this great country of ours. Yeah Right!
To me the time on Letterman was a complete waste of time. I would rather have had Dave do "Stupid Pet Tricks" instead of "Stupid President Question and Answers". Does the President really think this how you reach everyday people? Do they want their health-care parlade with jokes about "being black before I ran for office" ?? And speaking of running for office, can the President please stop referring back to your campaign. That is not supposed to be the pinacle of your career and aspirations.
Speaking of the campaign, I believe the White House needs to clean house on members who seem to think that the government is just an extension of their campaign machine. First we had the "flag.gov" debacle where people in the White House felt that it was a good idea to use the government computers to gather information from the people on other citizens about health-care. Now during a campaign, all is fair in love and war. If they wanted to set up a web-site for democrats to send infromation about what the other side was saying about their positions on various issues, that is perfectly fine. But when you enter the WH, all things change. Using a government computer paid for "by the people" to gather information "on the people" you have a MAJOR problem.
Next came the President making fun of "people standing around waving tea bags". This too is fine during the campaign because if you want to make fun of people in the other persons campaign rallies that is ok. This is because most of those people are not going to cross over to your campaign anyway. But when you are the President, those protests may not necessarily be "Republicans" who are not going to listen to you. Also, those "tea bag wavers" also have friends and family who may be on the fence with you and by you making fun of them you have effectively pushed them over to the other side. The President is supposed to be the president of ALL THE PEOPLE and not just those people he happens to agree with.
Later we had Van Jones the "Green Jobs Czar" outed for his blatantly racist views on our country (said that "white polluters and white enviromentals were diverting polution into black communities and poisoning black people"), signed a 911-Truther petition, was a self-avowed communist (said so in his own book), and ran an anti-police-group in the bay area. Again, a campaign can employ whomever they want to get their message out and whoever they think can carry that message. But once you are in the WH, you need to vet all your staff as people like this only make people question the presidents policies and views (does he agree with Van Jones on "white polluters"?). Is anyone vetting these people?
Today we have the WH employing the National Endowment for the Arts to create art to push the presidents agenda. Agiain, if a politician running for office wants to gather some artists together to help his or her campaign that is fine and its called "marketing". Team-O did a VERY effective job of this throughout the campaign (although did take some fire for making his own "presidential seal". But now that you are in the WH a new set of rules come into play. The NEA is not your personal marketing group. They are paid by tax dollars "of the people". They answer to Congress, not the president. Such employment smells of "propaganda" as used by other fascist regimes over the past century.
To me, heads need to roll in the WH as bad decisions are being made and are starting to paint this president as ill-prepared for the job.