The Grand Rapids Press 04/22/12 Jim Kuhnhenn
“Scandals hamper Obama’s Message White House uses outrage, deflection as it tries to sidestep messes”
http://news.yahoo.com/trouble-threes-scandals-hamper-obamas-message-192628153.html
It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president moves into re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses.
The scandals are taking a toll. They are distracting embarrassments that are dominating public attention while Obama seeks to focus on difficulties abroad and jobs at home. And they are giving Republicans an opportunity to question his competence and leadership, an opening for Romney in a race so close that any advantage might make a difference.
The White House response has been textbook — a mix of outrage and deflection.
"The president has been crystal clear since he was a candidate about the standards that he insists be met by those who work for the federal government and on behalf of the American people and for the American people," says White House spokesman Jay Carney.
By the time the president got home, General Services Administration officials were appearing before congressional committees about a lavish Las Vegas conference and junkets to resorts, and more evidence of excess was beginning to emerge. Obama's attempts to draw attention to his efforts against oil market manipulation on Tuesday and to help the economy on Wednesday were drowned out by further Secret Service revelations and by the publication of gruesome photos depicting GIs with the bodies of Afghan insurgents.
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I am amazed on the blatant blame game…. “My message isn’t being heard because the Secret Service can’t keep it in their pants, the GSA are wasting tax dollars, etc…”
Apparently they don’t offer “Leadership skills 101” at Harvard, or maybe he took it but he was so wrapped up in the “Communist Manifesto” to pay attention.
As the President of the United States is the leader of these organizations, to which there are auditing and oversight agencies to handle these issues and the heads of these dept know it. So what is not being said?
If you know you have to report all expenses from a conference to the accounting dept., why would you put your job on the line when inevitably you are going to be caught?
As well as, the Secret Service has on the ground supervisors, so why would you obviously break you job duties to be with a prostitute?
Yet among these questionable acts, the Pres. Obama’s campaigning message is being missed. From his own actions, the president records shows his lack of love for the constitution, his ability to mislead the American people by encouraging racial tensions, misinform legislation and its overreaching arm on to the people and his inability to stand for this great country.
My question is….. Are these acts created by and manipulated by the current administration so the American people can forget about Pres. Obama’s poor decisions of the past?
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