Why Obama Bears the Blame for Sherrod’s Firing (UPDATE–BREAKING NEWS)
By Larry Johnson on July 21, 2010 at 6:15 PM in Current Affairs
The earth’s orbit around the Sun may be knocked out of kilter if the spin going on in Washington surrounding explaining Le Affaire Sherrod gets anymore frantic. As noted in Bronwyn’s Harbor’s post on the press conference by Ag Secretary Vilsack, we have been told repeatedly that Vilsack and Vilsack alone is responsible. Good soldier. Take the bullets for the boss. But Vilsack is not that stupid to have done this on his own. A white guy firing a black woman without checking with the White House? Bullshit!
But here’s the reality. BARACK OBAMA WAS BRIEFED YESTERDAY AND TODAY ON THE SITUATION. Don’t take my word, here’s the official Barack mouthpiece:
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So here’s the question that no one in the media dared ask:
When Obama, the Chief Executive of the United States Government, was briefed on the situation did he even have the common sense to suggest that everyone hold their fire and investigate the facts first? Simple answer–FUCK NO!!!!
Tuesday morning Robert Gibbs Deputy, Jim Messina, was doing a victory dance at the morning staff meeting at the White House for getting on top of this story. Ben Smith reports:
In a closed staff meeting Tuesday morning, a senior administration praised elements of the White House’s initial response to a partial video of a speech by a Department of Agriculture official — a response that the Administration has since reversed.
White House officials yesterday afternoon told reporters they did not press Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to demand the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, but that they stood by the hasty decision; last night, they took credit for pressing Vilsack to rehire her when a fuller video revealed that her remarks had been edited to mean the opposite of what she said.
But three Democratic sources said deputy chief of staff Jim Messina singled out the White House’s initial response to the incident for praise in the regular 8:30 a.m. staff meeting Tuesday morning. The sources differed on the substance of Messina’s praise, but concurred that he had praised the speed of White House communications in response to the flap, which was driven by a misleadingly edited video posted to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website.
And then we have Shirley Sherrod’s own account that, and she says, the White House had called three times pressing for her to resign.
Who is in charge of the U.S. Government? An incompetent former Governor from Iowa who supposedly rushed to judgment and canned a black woman without even giving her a chance to explain?
But this is not an aberration. HELL NO!!!!
It is the classic behavior of Barack Obama. One year ago today Barack Obama was shooting off his lips from the hips with respect to the arrest of Professor Gates in Boston:
He admits he does not “know all the facts.” JESUS CHRIST SAVE US!!! Here’s a man with the ability to launch nuclear weapons. He is supposed to be in command of US troops engaged in fighting two wars. And he acts without getting all of the facts? He did not learn a goddamn thing from the debacle surrounding Professor Gates. A smart person should have learned from that experience to get all facts possible before reacting. So here comes Tom Vilsack to the White House (or maybe Vilsack briefed Robert Gibbs). In any event, someone briefed Barack Obama that a black woman in the Department of Agriculture was seen on a snippet of tape making some outrageous racist remarks. Did Barack Obama ask his staff to get to the bottom of this? HELL NO!! Did he ask if her comments were taken out of context? HELL NO!! At a minimum they stood by idly doing nothing while a woman denied due process was publicly embarrassed and financially harmed. At worst, and this is more likely, Obama made it clear that she must go.
Obama is in way over his head. He is not competent. He has never had to manage personnel or a large organization. Confronted with this new challenge he is drowning. And like a drowning man desperately thrashing in the water, he’s taking us, the American people, under with him.
Damn the fools who voted for this clown and gave him the Presidency. He is not worthy and certainly, with each passing day, not competent to do the job.
UPDATE–BREAKING NEWS: I am sick of the Obamabots trotting out the “whitey tape” to excuse the incompetence of Barack Obama. Then I saw the following video from Good Morning America, featuring Andrew Breitbart and Media Matter’s Eric Boehlert.
Here’s the news. First time. The primary source, the person who first confirmed to me in detail the existence of the “Whitey Tape” is an employee of Media Matters. Got that? I got it from a Democrat. If Boehlert continues with these specious nonsense then I’ll be happy to let Media Matters deal with the whole enchilada of spreading “racist” lies. I have taken enough shit for this and I am done.
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