{"id":214,"date":"2010-05-17T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:26:23","slug":"leadership-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"LEADERSHIP VACUUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Obama administration is that stupid.\u00a0 \u00a0Their handling of the new Arizona immigration law has removed any lingering doubt.\u00a0 Attorney General Holder admitted that he never actually \u201cread\u201d the Arizonia Immigration law that is causing so much anxiety.\u00a0 Then, \u00a0Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano admitted that she also had never actually \u201cread\u201d the Arizona immigration law.\u00a0 Finally, the UN Human Right representative was on \u201cOn The Record with \u00a0Greta \u00a0&#8211; Fox News\u201d and she asked him to please point out what exact provision in the law is a problem.\u00a0 He did not have an answer, other than that the law \u201cseems\u201d to be a potential problem.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner went to China to talk about human rights.\u00a0 He brought up the Arizona immigration law to show to the Chinese that we have human rights problems too:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2010\/05\/17\/who-is-michael-posner-and-why-is-he-apologizing-to-china\/\">http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2010\/05\/17\/who-is-michael-posner-and-why-is-he-apologizing-to-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following quote from Mr. Posner is impossible to defend:<\/p>\n<p><em>Q Did the recently passed Arizona immigration law come up? And if so, did they bring it up? Or did you bring it up?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MR. POSNER: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own society.<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Q Did they \u2014 did they discuss anything about their concerns about Chinese visiting in Arizona? Any concerns raised?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MR. POSNER: No, that was not raised.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We gave an apology to China, the country that just may have the worst human rights record in the world, because Arizona dared to enforce existing immigration laws.\u00a0 \u00a0The last question is precious.\u00a0 Are the Chinese worried about visiting Arizona?\u00a0 Please!\u00a0 Try visiting China without permission.\u00a0 (But make sure your will is up-to-date first).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, Obama does the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama doesn&#8217;t take questions<br \/>\nat Freedom of Press Act signing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CNN, by\u00a0Xuan Thai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/usa\/Obama-Signs-Law-Supporting-Global-Press-Freedom-93967824.html\">http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/usa\/Obama-Signs-Law-Supporting-Global-Press-Freedom-93967824.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After reading from his teleprompter speech, President Obama was asked if he would take a couple of questions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/17\/obama-doesnt-take-questions-at-freedom-of-press-act-signing\/?fbid=5DkndMAJCc-\">http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/17\/obama-doesnt-take-questions-at-freedom-of-press-act-signing\/?fbid=5DkndMAJCc-<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama responded:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cYou\u2019re certainly free to ask the question.\u201d\u00a0 I won\u2019t be answering, I\u2019m not doing a press conference today, but\u00a0we will be seeing you in the course of the week.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The irony of refusing to answer questions at an event designed to show his support for freedom of the press was so obvious that even CNN noticed.\u00a0 \u00a0The news media is on to Obama and it is just a matter of time before this explodes.\u00a0 There are just too many stories about Obama just waiting to be told.\u00a0 All that is necessary is one story to hit the main stream media, and it will go viral.\u00a0 What little public support he has currently will literally disintegrate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is leaking at a faster rate than the BP oil well.\u00a0 \u00a0Just watch the following ad running in John Murtha\u2019s old congressional district.\u00a0 Remember that this district is highly democratic.\u00a0 These ads have already succeeded in making a race that democrats expected to win in a walk, into a cliff hanger.\u00a0 If the republican candidate wins this race, it will reverberate around the country louder than the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnHiN6Pwwos\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnHiN6Pwwos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now imagine yourself a democrat, running for re-election this November. Imagine several more months of Pelosi being Pelosi.\u00a0 Then imagine watching this ad played over and over and over again by your opponent.\u00a0 Your only hope is that people get so sick of seeing it that they get angry at the person running it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What has really happened is that it is no longer possible to even pretend that the Obama administration is competent.\u00a0 It has been obvious, to those who were paying attention, that this was true from day one.\u00a0 But the main stream media was so busy giving glowing results about Obama the brilliant that they failed to see that he was botching everything.\u00a0 What a shock!\u00a0 The most na\u00efve, incompetent, inexperienced person ever elected President of the Unites States is turning out to be the most na\u00efve, incompetent, inexperienced President ever.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people who supported Obama tried to pretend there was no problem.\u00a0 Obama might not have been great, but they could not bring themselves to think he was \u201cthat\u201d bad.\u00a0 But, he is that bad.\u00a0 He is that radical.\u00a0 The really difficult task is to find someone in his administration that is not radical.\u00a0 He is also that incompetent.\u00a0 We have an administration full of political correctness, but don\u2019t appear to have anyone capable of actually doing their job.\u00a0 I tried hard to think of one area where things have improved since Obama took office.\u00a0 I really cannot think of a single accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a suggestion for fixing the BP oil leak.\u00a0 Just bring the entire Obama administration out to the site on a large barge and give them all really long straws.\u00a0 This could really work, because they all suck!<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Obama administration is that stupid.\u00a0 \u00a0Their handling of the new Arizona immigration law has removed any lingering doubt.\u00a0 Attorney General Holder admitted that he never actually \u201cread\u201d the Arizonia Immigration law that is causing so much anxiety.\u00a0 Then, &hellip; 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