While Cairo Burns, Obama Parties

[yrualeg]

Okay, maybe it's just the in thing to bash the President but this guy seems to have no clue about the Position he's actually in. He thinks or appears to think that being President is just a big party that's financed by someone else, he doesn't have to produce anything, lead anything. This entire administration is out of its depth. While a long time ally is destroying itself..the President instead of standing up...tweets about it. Instead of showing strength..he goes to a party. His priorities are way out of whack if you ask me.


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While Cairo Burns, Obama Parties
by KEITH KOFFLER on JANUARY 30, 2011, 12:56 PM
The Washington A-List was out in force Saturday night at the farewell party for senior adviser David Axelrod, with a roster of guests featuring Cabinet secretaries, big shot journos and – President Obama.

As revolution threatened to sweep Egypt and possibly other allies – with the horrifying prospect of Islamism replacing reliable friends – the president was on view partying with the IN crowd.

The skepticism beyond the Beltway about whether Washington is just one big Love-In certainly gets fed by the sight – as conveyed by the press pool report – of reporters like ABC’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Chuck Todd, National Journal’s Major Garrett, and John Harwood of CNBC and the New York Times emerging from a bash with the president that was held to toast his chief political fixer and leading spinmeister.

I understand why reporters would do this – other than the admittedly pathetic notion that, gosh, it’s fun to party with the president of the United States! It is pretty good for building sources and getting inside dope. But man, it ain’t easy smacking the White House with tough stories all the time if you’re getting invited to their exclusive parties, now is it?

Also on hand were Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The party was at the Washington residence of Linda Douglass, the former hard-hitting ABC reporter who dropped out of journalism to spin the health care bill out of the White House. She’s now a VP at Atlantic Media.

So we have an official with a journalism outfit – Atlantic Media – HOSTING a party for the president and his consigliere.

Mrs. Obama stayed home. Good for her. Maybe she was monitoring the situation in Egypt.

[SGT G]

As Rome burned emperor Nero fiddled. Sounds familiar. Our ass hat in chief is a joke.

[AFTAC85]

I don't even know what to say really. He's a rock star, that is all he is worth.

[CharliePC]

With the exception that he can give a moving speech, Obama is an empty suit.

[Recon133]

Obama is an Actor, plain and simple. He acts the part, but it is all fake and he is reading cue cards.

[Bell]

Obama is a lousy politician and a lousy actor.

Reagan was a pretty good actor and one hell of a politician.

The difference is black and white. er...night and day.

[cb88]

What I don't understand is why this still surprises people

[Guymullins]

This unrest in North Africa and the Arab states is seen by some of us further down in Africa as a good sign. It means the people are waking up to what their leaders are doing. They are saying enough! We really wish that our citizens down here would do the same. The great danger is, the shitheadedness of the man in the street in Africa.
He is quite capable of throwing out the dictator and installing the devil instead. The old Roman saying "There is always something new from Africa" should be modified to, "There is always something worse from Africa." America should be doing all it can to fill the power vacuum with a moderate unifying candidate. Otherwise, the Muslim Brotherhood will seize power and it will end in tears.