Chance the Gardener would have been better

March 11, 2009 - by Tom Blumer
Less than two months into this administration, three things are clear.

First, its agenda is every bit as radical as many of us expected and feared. Based on President Barack Obama’s supposedly unimportant past, there was every reason to believe that this would happen. That some Obama supporters are surprised is a “tribute” to a media elite that treated decade-plus relationships with radicals Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and others as “distractions from the real issues,” and to a McCain campaign that refused to treat Obama’s candidacy as the threat that it was, and now is.

Second, despite strong signals that he is guiding the ship of state in the wrong direction, Obama and his administration have largely refused to bow to reality. Having triumphed in the presidential campaign with marketing and misdirection, they actually believe that voters gave them a mandate to spend hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t have, and to bail out banks, companies, and homeowners without apparent limit. While the markets continue to beg to differ, Obama has been essentially indifferent.

The third clear thing is the one that has apparently blindsided Obama fans the most, but should have been the least unexpected: He and his administration seem not to know what they’re doing. Pick almost any area and you’ll find a trail of incompetence that goes well beyond benign rookie mistakes.

The administration’s nominee vetting record has become a national joke that could take up this entire column.
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I love the first comment after the article:

1. Delia:

Zero’s reality checks don’t even exist and if they did they’d all bounce. We have ‘50-cent’ in da house now and that’s what his 0bama bucks will be worth. We have the biggest, dorkiest, sleaziest, scummiest, embarrassment for a POTUS EVER. 0bama makes the simple gardener from “Being There” look like a valid replacement.

God help us.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:57 am