posted October 24, 2014 11:47 AM
Yep, the worst President in US history is now a bystander as events spiral out of control. He's a bungling, incompetent boob but take heart usual suspects and O'Bomber Kool-Aid drinkers.O'Bomber says he's not on the ballot in November but...ALL MY POLICIES AND INITIATIVES ARE ON THE BALLOT.
There has been a great gnashing of teeth among demoscats trying to get elected or reelected by RUNNING AS FAR AND AS FAST AWAY FROM O'BOMBER AS POSSIBLE. 
October 24, 2014
Krauthammer: Obama a 'bewildered bystander'
Rick Moran
In his column on Friday, Charles Krauthammer aggregates President Obama's public utterances to the various scandals and crisis where he is always outraged at what his government has been doing.
It's an eye opener:
The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday.
There’s only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It’s his government. He’s president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration.
The IRS? “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it,” he thundered in May 2013 when the story broke of the agency targeting conservative groups. “I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS.”
Except that within nine months, Obama had grown far more tolerant, retroactively declaring this to be a phony scandal without “a smidgen of corruption.”
Obamacare rollout? “Nobody is more frustrated by that than I am,” said an aggrieved Obama about the botching of the central element of his signature legislative achievement. “Nobody is madder than me.”
Veterans Affairs scandal? Presidential chief of staff Denis McDonough explained: “Secretary [Eric] Shinseki said yesterday . . . that he’s mad as hell and the president is madder than hell.” A nice touch — taking anger to the next level.
The president himself declared: “I will not stand for it.” But since the administration itself said the problem was long-standing, indeed predating Obama, this means he had stood for it for 5½ years.
It isn't just a matter of it being someone else's fault. The president as bystander is off in the wings somewhere, muttering about these "anomalies" when actually, the disasters and scandals are the result of his belief in big government:
What makes the problem even more acute is that Obama represents not just the party of government but a grandiose conception of government as the prime mover of social and economic life. The very theme of his presidency is that government can and should be trusted to do great things. And therefore society should be prepared to hand over large chunks of its operations — from health care (one-sixth of the economy) to carbon regulation down to free contraception — to the central administrative state.
But this presupposes a Leviathan not just benign but competent. When it then turns out that vast, faceless bureaucracies tend to be incapable, inadequate, hopelessly inefficient and often corrupt, Obama resorts to expressions of angry surprise.
He must. He’s not simply protecting his own political fortunes. He’s trying to protect faith in the entitlement state by portraying its repeated failures as shocking anomalies.
Unfortunately, the pretense has the opposite effect. It produces not reassurance but anxiety. Obama’s determined detachment conveys the feeling that nobody’s home. No one leading. Not even from behind.
Did we really expect anything more? The presidency is the biggest management job in the world and we hired a guy to do a job for which he had no experience, and no idea about the very concept of leadership. So instead of action, we get speeches. Instead of competence, we get the Keystone Kops. And whenever it melts down, the president appears on TV and tells the American people that he feels their anger and frustration - and then goes off to play another round of golf.
We will probably survive the next two years. But the enormous damage done to the state, to the economy, to the psyche of the American people will bedevil his successors for the next decade.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/krauthammer_obama_a_bewildered_bystander.html
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