Via Mediate, Bret Baier of Fox News, in the most professional way possible, destroys White House press secretary Jay Carney in an interview. Baier did the same thing to President Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod (see here). Chris Wallace tied top White House aide David Plouffe into knots in a recent interview. And Solicitor General Donald Verrilli was, by all accounts, wiped out during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
I realize that we’re supposed to be enormously impressed with the intelligence and skill of this generation’s version of the Best and Brightest. But here’s the thing: these fellows are just not that good. Like the man they work for, they often come across as arrogant and inept, prickly and unable to directly answer questions. It’s a bad combination — and for top Obama aides, apparently, a widespread one.
They may be inept on policy, but for some reason they have managed to make the worst president in American History the odds on favorite to win a second term. Peter, when will you realize that policy and argumentation don't matter. Obama is after power, and he and his aides seem quite skillful in perpetuating and expanding it, even though their actual policies are attrocious and Obama is a pure demagogue or wose. Please stop pointing out how Obama/his aides are not the good–they are good at cheating, which seems to be quite enough these days.
Peter, you're always too generous. These young men aren't inept, they're deeply committed scoundrels trying to foist their demagogic nonsense on the ignorant masses. This isn't an issue when there's little at stake, but when the stakes increase and their lack of any rationale, besides the desire for power, is exposed. But they are also capitalizing on a base that has been trained for decades to demonize the right and excuse any Leftist folly. This, coupled with an severely isolated intellectual environment and an ephemeral vision of reality mean that the right questions will almost always make them crumble. n nDebbie Wasserman-Schultz recently responded to a critical query with "[That's] borderline offensive". Conservatives have for too long been too polite to these people whose incompetence is simply a measure of a real lack of interest in the realities that underlie not only this nation, but human nature as well. They have come this far by disingenuous appeal to a juvenile sense of fairness … it's time the grown-ups expose them and the fraud the perpetrate. n nWhile it's true that conservatives are just now crafting a language to deal with the Leftist exploitation of deeply held Christian values, the Left has already gone far from any semblance of honesty or integrity that many people are starting to wake up on their own.
It's really no surprise that Obama's team is filled with incompetent dorks. (Jay Carney in particular comes to mind when I roll my tongue around the term "incompetent dork.") Remember who picked them! And let me add, with respect to Keith Rice's point, that a dork can also be a scoundrel. He's just not likely to be very good at it.
God!!! They are beginning to notice, finally. When I wrote my piece in September of 2008, I knew Obama would be elected because the virulent hate that was pounded into McCain and Palin by the media insured it….it is to be hoped that four years later, a larger portion of the voters won't go deaf, dumb and blind again!!!
…. The U.S. could be paying for Obama’s political stunt long after he leaves office …. n nFirst rate men surround themselves with other First-Rate men. n nSecond rate with third through fifth. n nAnd a fifth-rater Peter-Principle pole-vaulted so many positions past his level of competence as to define the expression "out of this depth?" n nWith such untermenschen, miscreants, morons, misfits, misanthropes, recidivists and tax cheats as Timothy Franz Geithner, Missus Cli'ton, Jay Carney, Valarie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Elana Kagan, David Plouffe and Robert Gibbs et al.