Voters' Obama Folly Coming Home to Roost

[ravenshrike]

Originally Posted by shiiboi

No, the problem is that anyone who has been involved in the businesses that typically provide treasury staff have been ass-deep in corruption and collusion in the bad behavior that led to the economic meltdown. It's tough to find candidates for treasury positions that can pass the pre-approval vetting process.

Bullshit. The candidates are vetted BEFORE their names are released publicly, which means that Obama's people still don't know how to vet people, or that they don't consider the problems to be egregious during the vetting. What is tough to do is to find anyone remotely qualified for the position who isn't a lobbyist, thus meaning they have to have an actual connection to their field, and is willing to sign on with the Obama craziness who isn't an avowed communist. That's because a dart flinging monkey could choose better plans.

[shiiboi]

Originally Posted by ravenshrike

Bullshit. The candidates are vetted BEFORE their names are released publicly, which means that Obama's people still don't know how to vet people, or that they don't consider the problems to be egregious during the vetting.

Pardon me, but the names leak out in the PRESS during the 'secret' vetting process. When the candidates are found to have 'problems,' the adminstration denies they were every in the running, or the candidate publicy bows out for 'personal' reasons.

Originally Posted by ravenshrike

What is tough to do is to find anyone remotely qualified for the position who isn't a lobbyist, thus meaning they have to have an actual connection to their field, and is willing to sign on with the Obama craziness who isn't an avowed communist. That's because a dart flinging monkey could choose better plans.

So only lobbyists are qualified to be in government? Now you're just talking nonsense. And when you start talking about 'communists' you're way off base. There is nothing about Obama's political philosophy nor policymaking plans that is even remotely communist. Give me a break.

I will grant you that when Obama set a high bar for government appointees during the campaign he hadn't thought through how it would complicate his administration-building process.

[ravenshrike]

Originally Posted by shiiboi

So only lobbyists are qualified to be in government? Now you're just talking nonsense. And when you start talking about 'communists' you're way off base. There is nothing about Obama's political philosophy nor policymaking plans that is even remotely communist. Give me a break.

He swings and he misses. What I pointed out was that given that lobbyists are off the list, that leaves the truly competent of the field, who know that Obama's plans will only harm the economy, the corrupt and/or airhead idiots who seem to have all these problems, and actual communists, who would certainly applaud Obama's actions given to where they may lead to. Oh, and I can't forget the fascists who are having wet dreams over how this is bringing things into alignment to their ideology at least on a small scale.

[shiiboi]

Originally Posted by ravenshrike

He swings and he misses. What I pointed out was that given that lobbyists are off the list, that leaves the truly competent of the field, who know that Obama's plans will only harm the economy, the corrupt and/or airhead idiots who seem to have all these problems, and actual communists, who would certainly applaud Obama's actions given to where they may lead to. Oh, and I can't forget the fascists who are having wet dreams over how this is bringing things into alignment to their ideology at least on a small scale.

WTF? So you repeat, only lobbyists are qualified for government posts? I'm done.

[bobburgster]

While I didn't vote for this president, he was fairly elected by a majority of voters so I'm willing to give him a shot out of respect for our electoral system.

Having said that, while I'm not really pleased with a lot of the decisions he's made thus far and I'm certainly not one of his Obamabots, I think it's probably way too soon to judge given the enormous number of challenges the guy needs to address.

Nice to read an opinion like yours. I was getting a little concerned wondering if there was anyone here who could be honest about the time needed to make changes in a govt. like ours.
Hell, it took Bush 8 years to run it into the ground.